Taking Your Calls On The Lack Of Accountability Amongst Detroit Sports Media
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, we'll get to the phone calls. |
| 0:01.8 | David, we'll get to the text towards the end of the segment if that's okay with you, buddy. |
| 0:05.1 | And then, yeah, we'll turn our attention to other things, including the Tigers. You've had a data process about Scoobel. I have an analytics approach to the injury. You do what you want with it. We'll get to the Pistons at five as we gear up for game one. We go to Joe 971. Joe, how you doing, buddy? |
| 0:21.9 | I'm doing well. |
| 0:23.2 | Long time, no talk, boys. |
| 0:24.7 | What's going on? Not too much. Two quick things, really, if I get to my point. Quick anecdote. So I was on a second shift for about the last year and a half. So on my way, home, I got to listen to Mark Ryan. Nothing with that. Good young kid. When I got moved up first shift, I got off at 2 in the afternoon. I was, oh, I'll get to listen to Mike and Rico, and it was the week that you were on vacation. Uh-oh. And Mark Ryan filled in for you the whole week. You couldn't escape him, Joe. He was like Michael Myers. Thank you really, honestly. |
| 0:58.3 | Second thing was, thank you for giving shout out to Jeff Rieger. |
| 1:02.4 | He's great with the questions. He asked the hard-hitting stuff. |
| 1:04.8 | So glad you guys gave him props for that. I love Jeff. Nobody works harder. I love the guy. |
| 1:08.2 | Absolutely, absolutely. |
| 1:10.3 | But to your point about this, you know, fanatic, positivity, positivity, and it |
| 1:17.6 | is outside of sports. |
| 1:19.0 | I'll try not to ramble, but I feel like these days you cannot use these two words. |
| 1:24.1 | Constructive criticism. |
| 1:25.6 | No. |
| 1:26.7 | Otherwise, you're a negative Nelly and all that. |
| 1:30.7 | And to your point about that old school mentality, I think that's why I like Todd |
| 1:36.1 | McClellan, because he called out his teeth. |
| 1:39.2 | And instead of them going out and say, well, we need to play better and all that stuff, |
| 1:43.0 | they whine and they cried and, you know, all that. And what I equated to is like when your buddy gets a girlfriend |
| 1:50.5 | and you see these red flags and you try to tell him, hey, I see these red flags, oh, no, you just |
| 1:56.5 | don't like her because her hair is blood. You don't like her for this and another. So, um, yeah, |
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