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The Valenti Show with Rico is Detroit’s must-listen daily sports show — where strong opinions meet smart analysis. Hosted by Mike Valenti and Rico Beard, The Valenti Show brings unfiltered takes on the biggest national stories and dives deep into all-things-Detroit sports: the Lions, Tigers, Pistons, Red Wings, Michigan and Michigan State. Whether it's NFL drama, playoff stakes or college football storylines, Valenti and Rico tell it like it is — no fluff, no fan service, just real talk. Catch The Valenti Show with Rico live Monday through Friday 2pm - 6pm EST on 97.1 The Ticket (WXYT). Full episodes, individual hours and show highlights drop daily wherever you get your podcasts.
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In this edition of the best of the Tigers on 97.1 The Ticket, The Valenti Show, Cost & Jansen w Heather and Karsch & Anderson talk through their confidence level in the Tigers after a missed opportunity to take both games in Seattle
The best conversations about the Lions' beatdown of Cincinnati from Costa and Jansen with Heather, Karsch & Anderson, and The Valenti Show. Are the Lions now the best team in the NFC? Karsch and Anderson say they still have room for improvement. Valenti reacts to the news of Terrion Arnold's injury.
Valenti and Rico kicked off the first show of the week with their confusion over the results of the first two Tigers games of the ALDS against the Mariners. They spent the majority of the show on this, pausing briefly to discuss the Lions and other general football topics.
Mike and Rico began today's show describing their confusion regarding the Tigers and how they play baseball. They went back and forth on what to make about them before doing part 1 of "Can We Say That?"
The guys spent the second hour with a continuation of their Tigers' talk from the first hour.
Mike and Rico opened the third hour with an NFL "Can We Say That?" before they gave some of their own takes.
Mike and Rico put a bow on today's show with a continuation of their in-depth discussion about whether the Tigers' unconventional style of baseball will lend itself to a series victory against the Mariners.
The guys continue their Tigers/ALDS conversation into the final hour, where they try to hypothesize how the rest of the series will go.
The guys give their own "Can We Say That?" takes and get the people involved with your calls and your ticket texts.
Mike and Rico mix in some comments about the Lions defense as they continue the Can We Say That? conversation.
The guys do part 2 of "Can We Say That?"
The guys discuss the news that Lions CB Terrion Arnold will be out indefinitely.
Valenti and Rico hear from more Tigers' fans.
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The guys do part 1 of today's "Can We Say That?" segments.
Mike and Rico take your calls and read your ticket texts on what you make of the Tigers' style of baseball and the ALDS being 1-1 coming back to Detroit.
The guys continue their Tigers talk and wonder whether their style of baseball is sustainable.
Valenti and Rico are dumbfounded as they try to make sense of who the Tigers are.
The best interviews of the week from Costa & Jansen, Karsch & Anderson, and The Valenti Show. Hear from Dan Campbell, Jared Goff, TJ Lang, and Ross Tucker.
Despite a late-season collapse, the Tigers took down the Guardians in the wild card round and advanced to the ALDS for the second straight year. After a thrilling series in Cleveland, is Scott Harris forgiven for his inactivity at the trade deadline?
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Ricos takes are dumb
Skip made millions out of being a troll
Rico, love the podcast. However, what is with the Exorcist-type music that plays about every two or three minutes? Very weird.
Evan's audio sounds great.
I like this pod. I do have to ask though ... did Always Aggravated kick it when Sully left?
I felt this in my soul. We moved in to our new house three months ago. DIY all over the place. The last three months have been a cocktail of sweat, swearing and self-sabotage.
I came here to listen about the Andre Drummond trade not about the shity ass Spartans
This is exactly how I feel. I kept wondering yesterday if I was a psycho for not crying over this like my friends. Good to know I'm not alone.
Now last week's remarks on UM vs Army. 🙏🏻
So are we just done podcasting daily segments or what.
My Florida State fan wife scheduled our wedding on Ohio State's bye week in '14 (I'm from central Ohio, as was my whole side of the wedding) because she didn't want everyone watching their phones. One of my groomsmen is a UM fan so that was one of many setbacks for him that season. We went to school in Indiana so our IU friends were there, but not even they cared about Hoosier football. The one downside was missing the 61-58 Baylor-TCU game. It was a good year. Wife in October, title in January.
have you been paying attention at all? I'm going to answer that for you. No. not even a lil bit.
Definitely aren't Columbus. Columbus didn't have a terrible recession 😂
This is just a Michigan hate segment