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The Valenti Show

Valenti To Tigers Organization: "You're The Midwestern Athletics"

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Mike kicks off the final hour of the show by shifting to Tigers talk, giving his first thoughts on the air of what Scott Harris did, or did not do, ahead of the MLB trade deadline.

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0:00.0

All right, five o'clock. So we have, if you want Michigan and the draft of allegations, we've done primarily three hours of it. You can go listen to it. Odyssey.com rewind.

0:11.0

We got to talk about something that I don't know how much

0:14.3

coverage it has gotten today but I think the Tigers have attained a new status. Now

0:21.4

this weekend stony they retired Jim Leland's number, which I have

0:26.3

no problem with. I know some people did, but Ballpark was packed, they walk it off, but it's not the focus of the game.

0:35.7

It was Scott Harris's appearance on our station.

0:40.4

It was Jim Leland's speech and the way this all went down.

0:45.0

Leland thanked, well, everyone except one person.

0:51.0

And I thought it was very meaningful. Now if you think I'm out of line for thinking that that's okay. But he thanked everyone except the guy who owns the team. You know who else never appeared, was never

1:05.8

acknowledged as being there, and was never up on that beautiful new

1:09.6

scoreboard? You guessed it, Chris Illich.

1:14.3

When you combine the fact that, I think intentionally they didn't put them up there,

1:19.6

because they didn't want them to get booed out of his own part.

1:22.0

Absolutely, I was watching with my family. didn't want him to get booed out of his own part. Absolutely.

1:23.0

I was watching with my family on Saturday.

1:26.3

I said they're not going to introduce Chris Illich.

1:29.1

They said, why, dad?

1:30.1

Because he's going to get the help boot out of him.

1:32.3

So for one, instead of being more concerned about the reaction of your fan base

1:37.6

than actually giving your fans a good product, this is where I've arrived at with this team.

1:42.2

Scott Harris would not make a guarantee

1:44.9

that they're going to spend. They've had no discussions to buy out habe byas. Now I

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