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The Valenti Show

Taking Your Calls On If You're Content With Tigers' Lack of Moves

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

The guys go to the people to hear if they're on the same page as them regarding Scott Harris' conservatism when it came to the trade deadline.

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0:00.0

Straight to the people, we are revisiting the deadline.

0:04.0

Not to be redundant, but because A, you needed time to cool your engines a little bit, really settle in with your feelings.

0:12.6

But also, you lost two or three to the Phillies.

0:15.5

And I, look, again, you're not a good team against teams of a winning record.

0:21.4

Okay? I'm uninterested in the flashy record.

0:24.3

Like, I understand it's been a thing, and you obviously love winning.

0:28.2

Winning is fun.

0:29.4

But I'm past the novelty of last year.

0:32.8

Last year was a Disney movie.

0:34.7

This year, I'm treating you like a big boy.

0:37.4

This is about winning the

0:38.1

World Series. I don't care that you dominate the dregs of the league. I care about this

0:43.7

weekend against Philly, you were up against it. Your lineup is not good enough. And against

0:50.0

real pitching, and you saw it against Seattle, you saw it against Texas, you're seeing it again here,

0:56.3

against real pitching, you are largely rendered helpless. So the combination of a deadline that

1:05.6

they did nothing to address the offense, and again, I can't scream, I won't, It's silly. I don't know who the right-handed bat was they were supposed to go and get. It's not my job. I'm not going to yell about Suarez. I wasn't going to overpay on a rental. You know what I wanted. I listed. And I even got made fun of it, so it's rather hilarious that

1:28.0

the team did trade both guys I brought up. I thought about that. Let me put on my... I let it go.

1:34.3

Yeah, again, let me put on my little Burger King Crown. The point I'm making is last night when I

1:39.3

saw Duren come in the game with the intro, with the electricity, I just, that, that's what we lack in this town is Dave Dombrowski has one job,

1:49.1

win the World Series, willing to lose his job in that process.

1:53.6

Here, if you read Evan Petzel, the Tigers, if you called and asked for a human being with

1:58.0

four limbs, they said no.

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