Major League Baseball 2024
I think this is what happens when you rely on autotune, which covers up an abundance of woes.
At any rate, let's go O's! They kind of stumbled into the break, so hopefully the time off will get them straight.
And the Yankees are scum. Gone are the days of Torre, Rivera, and Jeter. I respected them then, even though being from Maryland, I of course hated the Yankees. The video of one of them laughing after Gunnar Henderson was intentionally beaned made me sick. I can still remember when Paul Blair was beaned by Ken Tatum of the A's. Neither Tatum nor Blair were ever the same players afterward.
Auto-tune is a nice, convenient mostly studio trick to iron out a vocalist, or band's singer rough edges, incomplete high or low notes, or lack of melodic nature on certain tricky songs, but live on-stage, especially when an artist is drunk, high it's a lot harder to mask how badly some performers sound on some nights or shows.
FWIW, the first major hit song or song period to use auto-tune was Cher's 1998 " Believe " and even though its been mostly beneficial, I've always seen auto-tuning as kind of cheating. Many of the great rock bands of the 60's, 70's, 80's, hip hop groups of the 80's and mostly 90's didnt have auto-tuning and I think the fact that it wasn't their made singers and bands better. IMHO, because they could hone, develop, and master their vocals better naturally then just relying on a bunch of computers to artificially "make" your voice sound better. It's kind of lazy, to be honest with you, Terps, or it can lead some artists to becoming over-reliant and not really try to develop or grow how they sing in different ways.
The Orioles, throughout their franchise's existence, are a "streak" team---meaning they can go for long periods looking like absolute world-beaters, no-contest AL East division titles, ALCS or WC appearances, or WS appearances and titles from the late 60's-1983. Those Orioles under Buck Weaver seem almost mythical now. Then they proceed to fall apart for over a decade in the mid 80's-mid 90's, become competitive again in the late 90's for a few seasons, then become a perennial loser and doormat again until the early-to-mid 2010's.
How in the hell, Terps, does a very good, promising, dominant at times Orioles team that wins 100 games last year have a brain hemorrhage suddenly once the WC round starts and gets its arses collectively kicked? Winning 100+ games in a MLB regular-season is sort of equivalent to going 13-4 or 14-3 in a NFL regular-season and both aren't easily achievable or replicated. At least the Ravens won a playoff game vs. Texans before their mental mistakes, turnovers burned them against the Chiefs.