Major League Baseball 2024

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.
That week-long layoff last year did in the O’s, Astros, and Braves. All 3 won 100 games in the regular season, then the 3 combined to win exactly one playoff game. When you’re used to playing 6 games a week and you’re doing well, it’s good to roll right into the playoffs.