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The Valenti Show

Valenti Wants You To "Sell Him This Pen" With His Tigers' Idea

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Mike opens up the second hour with an interesting idea for the Tigers, which he turns around to the people, asking them to "sell him this pen" on it.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We're a couple of days away from the Tigers opening up their season in Chicago Thursday afternoon right here on 97 won the ticket

0:08.6

I want you to sell me this pen

0:11.4

Here's what I mean just work with me for a second. Now we're all entering

0:15.5

the season, hopeful. And as I always say, hope is not a strategy. It's just an emotion. It's something

0:22.0

we lean on. We are hoping the Tigers take a step forward. We are hoping they could somehow get into the mid-80s and maybe win this garbage can of a division.

0:33.0

But I really thought about this is that now that

0:36.0

really the off season's over and you're going in with what you got.

0:40.0

I wanted to know if I'm a bad person for the following reasons.

0:45.0

So work with me and then if you think Michael you can't approach it this way.

0:51.0

I'm not mad. I will not die on this hill. But I read a news

0:55.6

blurb that really chapped my ass. So you guys know I hate drafting high schoolers in

1:00.9

the MLB draft. Especially when you're up high. I think you got to

1:04.7

take college bats, college arms, it's just, it's the way to go.

1:08.9

Too developmental going the high school route.

1:11.1

Well, the player you passed on is about to break camp with the

1:14.0

World Series champion Texas Rangers, Wyatt Langford was an outfielder just like Max Clark.

1:19.6

So Langford's gonna break camp. And spring training, the stats don't really matter to me.

1:24.9

But when a kid puts up a 1,300 OPS

1:27.2

over the course of a month, you go, okay, well, that's different.

1:31.2

They're a World Series team, and this kid is so good they're finding a reason for him to break

1:36.7

camp and violate all service restrictions. Max Clark's probably not going to be here for two years.

1:45.0

Okay, so we'll see you in 20.

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