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The Valenti Show

How We're Feeling About the Tigers

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Mike and Rico take a break from talking Lions' hypotheticals to break down the state of the Tigers, who are now only one game above .500.

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0:00.0

All right, we'll get a couple of callers momentarily.

0:03.2

I had a question for Rico and David and Kenny, and let me just say, I understand we're roughly

0:08.8

20 games into a long year.

0:10.8

Okay, I know this. But it was something I was thinking about. Tigers tonight

0:16.3

through Minnesota's ace, Joe Ryan. You're pretty heavy underdogs tonight and Flaherty's been pretty bad.

0:25.0

The point I'm making is after that ridiculous outer space lucky start, you're back to square one. like you're a 500 team, who largely doesn't hit the ball unless the other team has it bounce off their sack or they fall over in center field or something else ridiculous and

0:44.7

you're just not good. Like do we suck again? Is that have we reached are we now

0:51.9

back to one with the Tigers I mean again

0:55.2

Torkelson started he was terrible in spring training he's been awful to start

0:59.9

the season the lineup is a complete joke Mark Mark can as your best hitter. That's not a compliment.

1:06.3

And pitching wise, I understand. I told you, I hated the Flaherty signing. I wasn't going to

1:11.6

mock the Myeda signing, but I didn't love it and my

1:15.0

Aida historically is terrible in April go look I promise you that's factual

1:19.6

he gets better in May but but he's been terrible.

1:24.6

And I'm sitting here and I'm going,

1:26.8

this division's wide open, and I'm sitting here 20 games into the season.

1:31.0

They're 10 and 9, they're probably gonna lose lose tonight and they got a negative run differential and

1:36.7

scoring again yesterday notwithstanding RICO the first seven innings of they average, I think 1.9 runs per.

1:45.0

Yeah, when you hit me with that stat, I was like, wow.

1:48.0

But yeah.

1:49.0

So I know, it's 20 games in, but am I wrong?

1:52.0

I guess it also comes to this.

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