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The Valenti Show

The Guys Offer Some More Thoughts On The Skubal/Tigers News

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Mike and Rico expand on their reactions to Tarik Skubal winning his arbitration case against the Tigers and take some more of your calls.

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0:00.0

Hour number two. All right. Let's rock and roll if you missed the start of the show. Very simple. I'm relieved. I am relieved. A team has got up from Rico's Coney and dropped their nuts and said, we're going to be serious. And it's a credit to Scott Harris and Chris Illich in that front office. You can't take it lightly when you go to your owner and you got to ask for

0:20.9

$40 million per. And is Framber perfect? No, but today's not the day to pick that apart.

0:27.5

There is no salary cap and therefore it is not my problem. Scoobool 1 is arbitration. I'm happy

0:33.4

about it. And the fact that they signed this deal, knowing they were probably losing that

0:37.9

arbitration, it allows me to view this baseball team differently and view them the way I want

0:44.6

to view teams in sports. I can take you seriously. It's not patronizing. It's not why won't they

0:51.2

try. It's not the team's the same, but they're not the same.

0:55.8

It's real.

0:56.9

And I think it's put the Tigers into a serious World Series conversation, and I'm thrilled.

1:03.1

And I know, RICO has some great points, and it was a circuitous route to end up here.

1:08.3

And I'm not mad at anybody who calls up and goes, oh, I would rather a rather at Bobauchette. We can have that conversation. The point I'm making is if somebody offers to cook you dinner and they cook a good meal, but it wasn't exactly the entree you would hope for, what are you not going to do? Pick up the fork. Framber and Terrick at the top of the rotation. That's nasty. Yeah, they're going defense.

1:28.1

They're not going offense.

1:29.3

They didn't go and get the bat that we all wanted them to get.

1:31.7

So, yeah, it was just, I was just kind of befuddle like, wait, did this mean you're trading school bowl?

1:42.1

You're bringing, no, we keep them both.

1:45.1

Oh, okay.

1:47.4

Sure.

1:48.7

Yeah.

1:49.7

I'm in.

1:50.7

But it looks like one person did leave the coney mic.

1:53.9

We're waiting to see if somebody else is paying the check.

1:58.3

Deadline's done right now.

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