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The Valenti Show

How Improbable Would A Playoff Appearance Be For The Tigers?

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Mike has some stats to back up his negative sentiment regarding the Tigers the rest of this season.

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0:00.0

I just want to reaffirm something too.

0:02.8

And look, I understand it's a two-way street, right?

0:05.9

There are easy buttons you can do when you're on this side of the speaker.

0:11.3

And like if I went on today talking about firing a manager or firing, you can't do that.

0:15.7

That's lazy and it's not realistic.

0:17.5

And it's probably not appropriate, be quite honest.

0:21.2

But in the same thing, the easy button thing is, oh, sports radio negative.

0:26.6

It's like, no, I'm giving you mathematics with this, okay, as much as I'm angry.

0:32.4

I want to read, I just want to read a little something to you, okay?

0:35.3

I just saw an article about this.

0:36.7

And it's interesting.

0:38.4

So we talk about the team being 11 games under 500, and that is, that's a hill to climb.

0:44.0

Now, remember, when you were nine and a half games out of first two years ago, you were like five games under 500, okay?

0:51.5

The only team that is, in recent memory, that has been at least 10 games under 500 on June 19th,

1:02.0

because we were talking about how much time do you have?

1:06.3

The only team you can find that was at least 10 games under 500 as late as June 19th would be the 2022 Mariners.

1:17.8

That's it.

1:19.5

Why do I bring it up?

1:21.3

I bring it up because that gives you less than a month.

1:25.0

That you, in this next month, you have to play substantially better than 500

1:32.3

so that on June 19th, you don't have a for-sale sign out in front of your house.

1:38.1

Let's say this baseball team snaps out of a 2-15 run And in the next 20 games goes 10-10.

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