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This is a very good point. In today's society, people need/crave shared experience because it's in large part missing from the rest of the modern society. That is largely what a concert show is about today - connection. From that viewpoint, a Swift concert is not fully about the music - as music per se, it's what the music represents in term of a bridge - a shared total sensory experience - across the audience. In small scale live acoustic music performance, or if you plug yourself into a Hahn recording of a Bach partita, the variety in tempo, bending of a note, all the freedoms the performer takes in that particular performance as they put their present tense (even if recorded) emotional stamp on the performance make that an animal different enough from a concert show to be apples and oranges. In that case music is an individual experience. All the texture that electronics could wash out is the whole point. It's almost an exact converse.

Unsolicited weird opinion of the day: I unabashedly love auto-tune. I think its awesome as an instrument/effect itself on people's voices and adds another dimension to a recording studio as an instrument itself. As a paying studio customer regularly I love when a the producer can fix a note with 2 clicks of a mouse instead of multiple people having to redo a Take when time is money. It liberates! I can understand people thinking it's cheating/covering up absence of talent and whatnot.... but that happens in recording in hundreds of different ways. For instance, On a recent record I played on one of the songs is 2 separate takes copy/pasted together half way through. Or... many people don't even know who actually played an instrument on a record. Netflix documentary Hired Guns is incredible.

Jackson Jobe article on Fangraphs https://blogs.fangraphs.com/sunday-notes-jackson-jobe-has-a-jacob-degrom-like-cutter/

I kind of get both, but when you put guys out there who clearly aren't goin to get it done, I think you send a message that it's okay to lose. It's not. Have a bullpen day. Do something other than this thing which really hasn't worked all year. This team's management can be infuriating sometimes.

The tigers season seems to be winding down.

I bet even our offense could score 3 or 4 against wentz.

Yes it has to be demoralizing for the other players when they know he is going to be pitching.

This just in, Wentz is unmitigated ass who shouldnt be in the bigs, more at 11

I think Maton is safe. Calvo is probably next in line.

It seems like another wave is here or coming. Just based on people I know catching it.

I think we’ll see Meadows. He’s already on the 40 man, so no issues there.

Promise?

They could always re-sign him............

But I'm making a different point. Because I agree with you that they've "anointed" him as their "Jesus". But that doesn't make him "Jesus". Anointing Jim Jones as anyone's savior doesn't make him Jesus. Hitler taking power and turning into the "savior" of Germany (99% of the population (just a WAG) believed he had "saved" Germany, before he nose-dived, for specific reasons) still doesn't make him the "Jesus" of Germany. Putin is not the Jesus of Russia. Trumpism is not Christianity. I am not arguing with you that MAGA has "anointed" him, they have. I am arguing that just because someone is "anointed" in a cult, in any cult, does not "make" them Jesus. It's an inappropriate comparable based not on his anointment, but on the differences between the Cult of Trumpism, versus Christianity. They are not equal and therefore he can NOT be Jesus. Jonesism, Putinism, Hitlerism... none of these guys are modern day Jesus's... Although they certainly played to popular sentiment searching for a "savior". But, not the same thing. That's why I say when Trump dies, Trumpism will wither. It's a Cult of his personality, like Jones/ Putin/ Stalin/ Mussolini, etc... When the Cult Leader of a violent movement dies, the movement dies, even if it's not entirely 100%. It's not attractive to normal people. How can it grow? Christianity grew... because of its message, not its original leader. Therein lies the difference that I am trying to point out. Trump cannot be "Jesus"... even if he has been "anointed" by his sycophantic cult adulationists, because Trumpism is not a religious message, but, rather, a fascist message of violence and hatred. Like Mussolini (not Jesus), like Hitler (not Jesus), like Stalin (not Jesus), like Putin (not Jesus), etc.

Yeah. Cade was invited but he turned it down so he could concentrate on rehab and getting ready for the season.

I am about as completely divorced from pop music as a person can be so I have no dog in this fight, but strictly philosophically speaking, the question might be where is the line between reproduction and performance? Does the modern fan care? Probably not. It's not really even a new question since as noted, performers have been lip-syncing in front of their recordings since pop music first started showing up on television. Today it's just more like "American Bandstand" has met I-MAX. I get more musical enjoyment from walking into a church somewhere to hear a little gospel choir sing live into nothing more electronic than thin air than going to a stadium music concert, but that's fine, to each his own. EDIT: just to note. Video production SW like OBS will have all the video overlays pre-cued for the show and the operator just has to follow the performer in real time if they want to bend things a little. And the artist can cue the booth if they are going to skip or add a verse etc. You can have a human in the loop - it could be completely tied down but it doesn't have to be.

There are local level bands making extensive use of midi and backing tracks. Midi is awesome. Hope Biff can stop buy and share his experience with it I think his group uses it a lot

Depends on the artist, there are holdouts and purists, but sure. Autotune is a digital tech, but splicing and overdubbing goes back as far as good studio tape machines (1970's). It was done, just not to such a fine grain and it was more work. What I wonder about is how much of the digital tech is used in a typical live show today. I'm sure no artist would want to admit it, and of course in small venues with little or light amplification you are going to hear a real voice in real time, but in stadium level shows like Swift, or even auditorium size venues where the volume is cranked to >110 db, no one will hear hear any of the actual voice going into the mic, only what the PA system puts out. Any mixing board has plenty of equalization and compression options but I wonder how far beyond that live tech goes now.

We’ll know for sure if Opus makes an appearance.

If only we were anti-woke like Sweden …

All signs point to yes.

You can walk as far as you want. You start at one end and most people go halfway and then walk back (that's about 5 miles) but you can turn around at any point or you can walk the whole distance as there is a ferry service back to where you started. You can walk on the grate (which doesn't start until about a mile from the start) or just walk on the solid surface. When you get back, there are people handing out certificates which I though was kinda nifty.

I'd be more surprised if Julian made the team, honestly.

My surprise would be Marvin Jones.

Steve McQueen on a motorcycle jumping fences. What not to like. It's right up there with Bridge over the River Kwai and Stalag 17

I found an oldie but goodie on the Tube: The Great Escape. Am watching it now.

I'm seeing a familiar user name as our newest member.... is that our TTF from the old board?

those bears linebackers will be great tackling guys 5 and 6 yards downfield...

The Bears success is all entirely on Justin Fields. If he breaks out and is a Lamar Jackson type of player then I think they can give us a run for our money because he'll be a superstar QB. But that requires him to be a much better passer, displaying much more accuracy, awareness, and ability to breakdown a defense than he's ever displayed at any point in his young career. While I think Fields can be a nice player, I don't know that I've seen anything from him yet as a passer and a QB, not just an athlete with the ball in his hands, that really scares me. It also requires their offense to have more balance on the whole and not just him running 40 times per game. They have no running game without Montgomery as Roschon Johnson is an unproven, 4th round rookie and they added no one else in free agency of note. I like DJ Moore as a WR, but am not sold that he'll be a stud playmaker with Fields throwing to him. Both Mooney and Claypool are below average #2 WRs in my view too. Their success is predicated on Fields being some sort of breakout star and being their offense with Moore. While I think their defense improved, it did so at one of the least important positions on the D, the LB spot. While I think Edwards and Edmunds are both really nice players, neither are players that will get after the QB or be lockdowns in coverage. The Bears defense had 20 total sacks as a unit last season. Ngakoue comes in and is instantly their best pass rusher and he had a down year last season himself. They have no one else on their roster even sniff double-digit sack totals. I'm just not afraid of their front 4 and don't think they have much ability to get after or sustain pressure on opposing QBs. I think Goff and other QBs should get decent in the pocket against the Bears. If they had drafted Will Anderson instead of trading back, that would be a different story. But they did not.

Cats are the nemesis of flat-earthers because if the world were actually flat, cats would have pushed everything over the edge.

Tim Miller is spot on....

if the Tigers tack on 3 years at 17M per, then its 9 figures