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The Valenti Show

How Big Of A Deal Is The Tigers Signing Valdez?

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Was this the big Detroit sports move we've been waiting for?

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0:00.0

David, a couple text communications.

0:02.1

And I don't mind rolling in some other topics here. I mean, obviously the Framber thing is big news. And if you're jumping in the car, yeah, it's a point of arrival where now, look, you can you can view this show however you want. Last I checked, it's free. If you don't like it, don't be here. But if you think, oh, well, you guys are hard on the Tigers or you're negative, No, we have expectations.

0:23.2

And yesterday's move is the expectation. Be serious about it. Let's

0:28.3

chase it. Show me the owner cares. Show me Scott Harris is willing to put his ass out the car window

0:33.8

or ass into the jackpot. And let's try to win this damn thing. And they did exactly that.

0:40.4

And I'm happy to give them credit for that. But man, you got to earn respect. It's not given.

0:46.1

And I've always said this. Like when people deify teams or executives, it's like, man, you're not

0:50.9

curing cancer. You're not saving some kids life down at U of M Children's Hospital. You're playing fantasy baseball. You're taking a billionaire's money and buying millionaires. A bully for you. You're really doing the Lord's work. So, yeah, this is the expectation. This is what this town is owed. This is what this fan base is owed. Kenny, how old are you in the Tigers won a World Series? Answer, you weren't born. You weren't a twinkle in your dad's nuts.

1:17.8

He was still in that tequila. You're owed. No, that's the point. They won a World Series in 42 years,

1:23.1

man. I was in high school. This town has to figure it out. The teams owe you.

1:28.0

You don't owe them.

1:49.8

And I'm more than happy to give credit. That was a big boy move last night. And it doesn't matter the player's not perfect. It doesn't matter that the term is from planet nebular. There's no cap, and it ain't my problem. No, it was just weird, the timing of everything. It's like, Mike, all of a sudden, you're driving to your surprise party and you got into it with your wife and you fought and argued the whole time.

1:53.1

You're ready to turn the car around only to find out when you get to the place.

1:53.7

Surprise!

1:55.9

It's your party.

1:58.4

Like, oh, okay.

2:00.2

I guess I got to change my attitude. Because I think a lot of Tigers fans were ready to be upset because, well, why did you have to take school board arbitration? Couldn't you have handled this before? I don't care about his agent and Scott Boris. You should have made this thing work. And then it went from, wow, we got a pretty good one-two punch.

2:19.5

See, but I'll say this.

2:20.4

And I understand what you're saying about the timing because it did feel a little weird.

2:25.3

But whether it was done in December, whether it was done yesterday, it was done.

2:29.3

And I'm so glad that a team finally decided to do something, period.

2:35.4

I don't care when it was.

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