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I agree...my camry came with sirius.
I wanted the premium sound system but I didn't want serius/xm. It's just the nature of options that sometimes you have to pay for something you don't want in order to get something you do want.
@DouglasR - Yea, kind of like the Nav in the Tech package. I'm a 2012 Leaf owner in addition to a non-Tech package Model S. It is surprising that even the base model of the Leaf (not 2013) comes standard with both XM/Sirius and TBT Nav, and Model S doesn't. Oh well... it is what it is.
I had XM for free for the first week, but then it turned off (I'm not a subsriber). I don't miss it. Slacker is great.
Plus, note that XM isn't free--someone has to pay for it!
I had XM for 3 months in my LEAF, and basically only used it for sports. For music, I would rather listen to my music in Google Music via my phone/Bluetooth. I do the same in the Model S, though I have played with Slacker.
Then as my free trial came to an end, they called me dozens of times asking if I wanted to sign up, sent tons of spam (which I still get a year later), etc. So, I resent having to pay for XM support in the Tech Package, and I don't particularly like paying for navigation as part of the tech package (I have been using it on my phone for years, and it is better integrated into my calendar/etc) -- thus is the nature of package deals.
Tesla can't separate every option so that it can be chosen independently of everything else, and so they have to group things together that they think people are likely to want together.
I can't believe how whiny people are here -- saying "I can't believe the Model S doesn't come with FEATURE_XYZ". They can't please everybody, and if they try they won't be around for anyone. A startup has to be laser-focused on building their vision of the product and delivering it.
If you can't live without XM, then either pony up the dough or don't by the car. If you have to have parking assist because you can't use your mirrors and the rear-view camera, then don't buy the car. Etc etc.
I posted this elsewhere on a similar thread but here it is again.
Is it not possible to get XM into your car by just using your smart phone's browser to listen to it? XM subscribers can tune in to XM on the internet...bring it up on your smart phone, pair the phone with your car using blue tooth and there you are.
Am I missing something here?
Joyrider, you presume good cell phone service. Both of my homes are in locations with no AT&T service and very limited Verizon service. We do have a Verizon network extender through DSL (slow Internet service), but it only works to about 100 feet from the garage. After that it is 16 miles to reliable cell coverage. Many of us are in this boat.
Yes, if you can listen to XM radio on your phone (you can verify this today) and your phone can use the Bluetooth A2DP profile, then you could listen to XM in your car via the phone.
I normally listen to my music via Google Music on my phone in exactly the same way. You don't get voice search, but generally in the car I just select a predefined playlist and let it play.
Music on a radio? How quaint.
I thought that is what iPods etc were for.
Yes, Yes, YES...this sucks. I thought Tesla was unique, but not offering XM hook-up without spending money to purchase other stuff, makes them like all the other auto makers...selling a good product for a fair price, then screwing you on upgrades.
Does anyone sell Sirius/XM as a standalone upgrade? I've had a Toyota Camry, a VW Beetle, and a Nissan Leaf. The satellite radio was always part of an upgrade package that included other stuff.
You may find that TuneIn is sufficient. you can get NPR, BC etc. Yes it may go in and out every now and then. I have the premium sound package, but not XM... Some like the 'enhanced sound' others do not. I use 64 Gig drives for my music, TuneIn and Slacker for 'radio stations'. By the way, those stations are quite diverse and international. I usually listen to ESPN, NPR, stations in Fargo. Singapore and college stations everywhere.
I don't think of it as being screwed for upgrades, I think of it as finding different options to meet a need
I have a Lifetime subscription w/ XM satellite. XM told me I'd be able to transfer it to my next 4 cars. Now I'm ready to order my Model S and the Tesla guy says I gotta buy this package. He says my transfer of xm won't work. That sucks! And I don't understand why. Can somebody explain it to me??
I would suspect their is some confusion at large here. You have to get the optional sound system to get the xm radio but the subscription is between you and xm. You just give xm the radio id and transfer your subscription.
You can transfer the subscription, but you need the package to have the XM hardware in the car.
Why can't you just get XM on your smartphone and bluetooth it to the standard radio. I have 3 XM subscriptions right now and am canceling 1 of them and transferring one to my phone. The other is in the house for major league baseball and other sports. The phone will be the new xm radio when I get my model S in September, earlier I hope.
Elon reiterates in most investor calls that Tesla makes a large profit on options. Good for them, it hastens the Model X and Gen 3.
I have XM in one car which I'll be keeping when my MS arrives. It's nice but not great. Most of the channels I like are only available online or via the iPhone app. Even in the car with XM I find myself using my phone and playing it through the sound system to get the channels they don't offer via satellite, so that's what I'm planning to do with my MS. One subscription, stretched out this way helps justify its cost better, at least for my situation. Just a thought you might want to mull over while making your decision.
I have XM in my Lexus and will not miss it once my MS arrives. Some channels keep disappearing and I find that I only listen to bbc and one or two music channels. I think BBC is available on TuneIn and slacker can cover all music needs.
I kept my Xm primarily to keep traffic navigation.
I really enjoy Satellite radio in my Volt. I will miss it for sure. I'm upset that I have to spend $2500 on what most people have admitted is not a worthwhile upgrade so that Satellite radio can be included.
I do not understand why an aftermarket upgrade of the sound system cannot include Satellite radio.
But I have made the tough choice to give up Satellite radio when I order my model S. $2500 is too much to pay for that alone.
I really got the Tech package for xm radio also, I haven't listened to regular radio in 10 years (I can't stand commercials!).
Turns out that I like slacker so much better than xm that I canceled my xm subscription right away.
I bfelt exactly the same and in fact six months ago posted a similar comment. I love satellite, because we travel a lot, and cannot live without it.
So I bought the premium sound package, which I normally never do, and absolutely love it. I never used to listen to music, and now I do a lot, and the car gives you great options for music.
In my experience, high-end cars like Mercedes always require you to purchase a package to get satellite. The cheaper the car, the more likely it is to be included. An analogy is Wi-Fi and hotels. It is free at the Motel 6 but costs $20 a day at the Ritz.
For not much, you can buy a portable Sirius auto satellite radio receiver that you can mount under the touch screen in a slot presumably designed for accessories. The wires are unsightly, the device is small and so a bit difficult to manipulate to change stations but it displays station and song information. The signal is often good but you have to run the antenna wire all the way to the interior trunk lid ( in my experience with the panoramic roof). Not great if you have a lot of back seat passengers but works OK if you typically drive with only two up front.
Sirius and XM use extreme compression, resulting in a bit rate of around 39 Kbps.. Compare that to the 128 or 256 kbps compression on your iPhone. The music is totally lacking in depth and an insult to any sound system. Suitable only for elevator music.
@ darred
Where is the XM antenna connector on the pano roof, and what does it look like? I've considered pulling the portable radio out of my Prius and connecting it to an FM transmitter in my 70D. Slacker is nice, but there are times I miss Watercolors. It's a shame Tesla lacks the aux jack that most cars have.
The sound quality for XM/Sirius is abysmal. I drive through poorly served cellular regions frequently, and having it can prevent quiet madness. The Grateful Dead channel alone makes it worth the price.


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1. How do I use Mondrian in my application?
There are several ways. If you have a fixed set of queries which you'd like to display as HTML tables, use the tab library. webapp/taglib.jsp is an example of this.
The JPivot project (http://jpivot.sourceforge.net) is a JSP-based pivot table, and will allow you to dynamically explore a dataset over the web. It replaces the prototype pivot table webapp/morph.jsp.
Pentaho Analysis Tool is an AJAX-based client.
You could also build a pivot table in a client technology such as Swing.
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Mondrian also has a provider for XML for Analysis.
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3. How does Mondrian's dialect of MDX differ from Microsoft Analysis Services?
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Not very much.
4. How can Mondrian be extended?
todo: User-defined functions
todo: Cell readers
todo: Member readers
5. Can Mondrian handle large datasets?
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6. How do I enable tracing?
See Configuring log4j within Mondrian's environment.
7. What is the syntax of a Mondrian connect string?
The syntax of the connect string is described in the Configuration guide.
8. Where is Mondrian going in the future?
We have a roadmap of planned and not-yet-planned features.
9. Where can I find out more?
Recommended books:
Microsoft Analysis Services has excellent online documentation of MDX, including a list of MDX functions.
10. Mondrian is wonderful! How can I possibly thank you?
We'd love to hear what you liked and didn't like about it. Post questions and comments to the forum. If you can think of ways that Mondrian can be improved, roll up your sleeves and help make it better!
If you modify Mondrian's source code, you are required by the terms of the Eclipse Public License to release your changes under that license (though not necessarily to the Mondrian project). Applications built on top of Mondrian, or plug-ins into Mondrian such as user-defined functions, do not need to be released open-source. But we'd appreciate any contributions, and of course, contributing your changes will make it easier for you to maintain your application when we release new versions of Mondrian.
11. Modeling
11.1. Measures not stored in the fact table
I am trying to build a cube with measures from 2 different tables. I have tried a virtual cube, but it does not seem to work - it only relates measures and dimensions from the same table. Is there a way to specify that a measure is not coming from the fact table? Say using SQL select?
Virtual cubes sound like the right approach. The way to do it is to first create a dummy cube on your lookup table, with dimensions for as many columns as are applicable. (A classic example of this kind of cube is an 'ExchangeRate' cube, whose only dimensions are time and currency.)
Then create a virtual cube of the dummy cube and the real cube (onto your fact table).
Note that you will need to use shared dimensions for the cubes to join implicitly.
11.2. How can I define my fact table based on an arbitrary SQL statement?
Use the <View> element INSTEAD OF the <Table> element. You need to specify the 'alias' attribute, which Mondrian uses as a table alias.
The XML 'CDATA' construct is useful in case there are strange characters in your SQL, but isn't essential.
11.3. Why can't Mondrian find my tables?
Consider this scenario. I have created some tables in Oracle, like this:
and referenced it in my schema.xml like this:
Now I start up Mondrian and get an error
The problem is that table and column names are case-sensitive. You told Mondrian to look for a table called "sales", not "SALES" or "Sales".
Oracle's table and column names are case-sensitive too, provided that you enclose them in double-quotes, like this:
If you omit the double-quotes, Oracle automatically converts the identifiers
to upper-case, so the first
There are two possible solutions. The simplest is to change the objects to upper-case in your schema.xml file:
Alternatively, if you decide you would like your table and column names to be
in lower or mixed case (or even, for that matter, to contain spaces), then you
must double-quote object names when you issue
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12.1. I get compilation errors? Why is this?
For example:
You can't just compile the source code using your IDE; you must build using
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Another example:
You don't have the correct JAR files (in this case,
13. Performance
13.1. When I change the data in the RDBMS, the result doesn't change even if I refresh the browser. Why is this?
Mondrian uses a cache to improve performance. The first time you run a query, Mondrian will execute various SQL statements to load the data (you can see these statements by turning on tracing). The next time, it will use the information in the cache. See caching design for more information.
If the data in the RDBMS is modified, Mondrian does not know unless you tell it using the cache control API, and will continue to answer queries using stale data in its cache.
By the way, if you are using the JPivot web UI and refresh the browser, that does not help; it will simply regenerate the web page, not flush the cache.
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I am using an MDX query with a calculated "aggregate" member. It aggregates the values between Node A and Node B. The dimension that it is aggregating on is a Time dimension. This Time dimension has a granularity of one minute. When executing this MDX query, the performance seems to be fairly bad.
Here is the query:
Is this normal behavior? Is there any way I can speed this up?
The performance is bad because you are pulling 19 days * 1440 minutes per day = 27360 cells from the database into memory per cell that you actually display. Mondrian is a lot less efficient at crunching numbers than the database is, and uses a lot of memory.
The best way to improve performance is to push as much of the processing to the database as possible. If you were asking for a whole month, it would be easy:
But since you're working with time periods which are not aligned with the dimensional structure, you'll have to chop up the interval:
This will retrieve a much smaller number of cells from the database — 18
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Q. I saw the perforce files, but a I couldn't find where to register and get new user, or the instructions that you have mentioned above.
A. Ask the project administrators (Julian) to register you. I would suggest that you start with guest level access and let's see if you need update access later. For more information, see the developer's guide.
15. Development environment
Q. Do you have some model for development environment (e.g. eclipse 3.4 + ant 1.7 + jboss x.x + .....)?
A. Using Eclipse for Mondrian development works fine. There is an Eclipse Perforce plug-in, too, but you can use the Perforce client outside of Eclipse. Some people use IntelliJ IDEA (which is free for open-source use).
As a test web-server, most people use Tomcat 5.5.
16. More information, documentation, ...
Q. Are all the updated documentation in the perforce server? How could I get more materials, howtos, etc. to reduce my learning curve?
A. As with any open source project, the documentation is the web site (which is source-controlled in Perforce too), the forums and mailing lists, the test suite and the code.
Also, use Google, and learn How To Ask Questions The Smart Way.
17. Becoming a developer
Q. How could I enroll myself into Mondrian project?
A. First, join the community. Sign up as a user in the Pentaho developer community. Subscribe to the Mondrian mailing list, read the Mondrian forum regularly, and start answering questions.
Also, there are a lot of Mondrian related questions from the JPivot and Pentaho Analysis Tool projects. Consider joining those projects too.
We don't give people committer rights (privilege to check directly into the perforce source code system) until they have made a few contributions. So, fix a few bugs, and post them to the developer list firstname.lastname@example.com. If you're thinking of implementing a major feature, discuss it with the developers before you start work, so you do it consistent with the architecture.
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Perhaps now that I've opened the door, I'll begin to talk more about my mother's very unusual and frustrating health situation, which has been ongoing for over a decade, but for now, I just wanted to share this great gift that she gave me. I did spend time with my mom yesterday, and thanked her for having me 48 years ago. I even asked her to tell me a bit about my birth, which she did - but just a little. She did repeat several times though that everyone kept looking at me in the baby bed and saying what a pretty baby I was, and each time she said it, she got a sweet smile on her face, as she remembered.


text: In Group E FC Seoul stayed undefeated with a 2-1 win over Japan's visiting Vegalta Sendai [AFP]Former Asian title-holders Pohang Steelers took a big step towards the AFC Champions League knock-out phase and dealt Sanfrecce Hiroshima a potentially fatal blow with a narrow 1-0 win on Tuesday. Bae Chun-Suk's strike on 17 minutes was enough to put the 2009 winners level on points at the top of Group G with both Uzbekistan's Bunyodkor and Beijing Guoan, who fought out a goalless draw in Tashkent. But the defeat left J-League champions Hiroshima rooted to the bottom with no points from three games, and needing a dramatic change in fortunes if they are to reach the round of 16 as one of the top two teams. "It is extremely disappointing because our target was just to grab three points. We will go on all out to win all remaining games," said Hiroshima coach Hajime Moriyasu. Elsewhere, FC Seoul survived a late fight-back to beat Japanese visitors Vegalta Sendai 2-1 and extend their lead at the top of Group E, while China's Jiangsu Sainty beat Buriram United to rise from bottom to second in the same pool. Early goal Hiroshima badly needed a win to breathe life into their campaign but they were rocked by the early goal after striker Bae connected with a cross from Go Moo-Yul, who had breached the Japanese side's defence from the left. Results Tuesday 2 April Al Nasr 2-4 Al Gharafa Bunyodkor 0-0 Beijing GuoanFC Seoul 2-1 Vegalta Sendai Jiangsu Sainty 2-0 Buriram United Sanfrecce Hiroshima 0-1 Pohang Steelers Sepahan 2-4 Al-Ahli Al-Jaish 3-1 Al Jazira Bae was denied a second by Hiroshima goalkeeper Shusaku Nishikawa's foot on 26 minutes, before Park Hyung-Jin came close to converting a chance at the other end. Pohang, the current K-League leaders, squandered several more goal attempts in the first half, while just before the break Hiroshima midfielder Gakuto Notsuda headed Hironori Ishikawa's cross over the bar. On the hour-mark, Naoki Ishihara was denied by the width of the post when he met Mihael Mikic's cross and headed off the woodwork. Bae fired over shortly afterwards and Pohang again came close at the death when Cho Chan-Ho dribbled towards goal and fired off the right post. "We have no choice but to win the last three matches and keep believing it's possible," said Hiroshima captain Hisato Sato. "We need to throw everything at the last three matches." In Seoul, the hosts were cruising after first-half goals from Sergio Escudero and Kim Jin-Kyu. But they had to endure an anxious finish after Sendai's Brazilian forward Wilson reduced the deficit with an 87th-minute penalty. China's Jiangsu had an easier evening in Nanjing after two goals in consecutive minutes put Thai visitors Buriram on the ropes just before half-time. The hosts were already in the ascendancy when Le Bofei rifled in a rebound on 41 minutes, and they floored Buriram just a minute later when Sun Ke rose unmarked to head home Ji Xiang's cross from the left. Sun had a second-half effort flagged off for offside as Jiangsu leapfrogged Buriram and Sendai to lie second in Group E, three points behind leaders FC Seoul. In Tashkent, the competition's first ever game between teams from Uzbekistan and China proved anticlimactic as Bunyodkor and Beijing Guoan played out a 0-0 draw at the new Bunyodkor Stadium. The result left Bunyodkor, Beijing and Pohang Steelers all on five points with three rounds of games to go in Group G, with Hiroshima still searching for their first point of the competition. The top two from each of eight groups will go into next month's round of 16 in the trans-continental competition, which then takes a mid-year break and does not wrap up until November. SOURCE: AFP Sport Football China South Korea Uzbekistan


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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ShopKeep POS, the company replacing cash registers with iPads and the cloud, today announced an additional $25 Million in Series C funding to help more brick-and-mortar small businesses ditch their cash registers. Financial services experts Thayer Street Partners led the financing with the existing investors Canaan Partners, Tribeca Venture Partners, TTV Capital and Contour Venture Partners participating. Tom Glocer, former CEO of Thomson Reuters and Thayer Street advisory board member and Matt Coffin, founder of LowerMyBills and frequent Thayer Street collaborator also participated.
The new funding comes after a third consecutive year of tripled growth, overseas expansion and key product releases. In 2013, ShopKeep once again tripled revenue and storefronts, and now powers over 10,000 small businesses located across the U.S. and Canada. Today, ShopKeep manages more than $1.8 billion in payment processing annually.
Furthermore, ShopKeep recently opened its first international location in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and has already hired 14 local employees to spearhead expansion into Europe. The company employs more than 100 people and will soon open a West Coast location to complement its 15,000 square foot headquarters in SoHo, New York.
In January 2014, the company launched ShopKeep Mobile, the first handheld mobile POS system for small businesses. ShopKeep Mobile is designed for the iPod touch and supports a 2D barcode scanner and encrypted credit card reader to accept payments. Last week, ShopKeep also released a complete UI redesign to optimize the iPad POS app for iOS 7.
The newest investor, Thayer Street Partners, is a New York-based private investment firm that provides growth equity and structured finance to companies at the intersection of technology and finance.
"Jason and the ShopKeep team have done an incredible job building a company that is revolutionizing the way small businesses use cloud–based technology to run and scale their businesses," said Josh Koplewicz, founder of Thayer Street Partners. "We are very excited to partner with ShopKeep and help the company accelerate its mission."
ShopKeep was founded in 2008 by former wine and grocery store owner, Jason Richelson, in the back room of his wine shop in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. The new funding, expansion and product updates will further ShopKeep's mission: to help small businesses run more efficiently and be more profitable.
"I started ShopKeep because I was fed-up with the software available to me in my wine store, and I knew there had to be a better way," said Richelson. "Partnering with Thayer Street is a significant step in our evolution as a company given their deep experience in tech-enabled financials and long-term investment approach. We're aiming to be the first billion dollar software-as-a-service company to come out of New York."
ShopKeep raised $12.2 million in two funding rounds in 2011 and 2012 from Tribeca Venture Partners, TTV Capital, Contour Venture Partners and Canaan Partners. In total, the company has raised $37.2 million.
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MILWAUKEE -- When it comes to Opening Day, James Shields is the natural.
For one thing, this will be the sixth time he's done it. For another, he doesn't let the tumult of the occasion affect him. And finally, he just loves it.
MILWAUKEE -- When it comes to Opening Day, James Shields is the natural.
For one thing, this will be the sixth time he's done it. For another, he doesn't let the tumult of the occasion affect him. And finally, he just loves it.
"As far as I'm concerned, it's a holiday for me and us as baseball players," Shields said. "It's the start of the season and we have one goal in mind -- to win the World Series and that's how you start it."
How Shields will start it this season is on Monday afternoon in Detroit, where he'll go after the elite of the American League Central, the Tigers, and their staff leader, Justin Verlander. Naturally, Comerica Park will be packed, and there'll be ceremonies, celebrities and general chaos. But hopefully, no rain or snow.
"He has a tremendous way of blocking things out and being able to focus on what he needs to do," Royals pitching coach Dave Eiland said. "He competes as good as anybody I've been around. He's the perfect guy to pitch Opening Days. He thrives on big games like that."
Five previous starts on Opening Day have resulted in just one personal victory, and that came in his inaugural one in 2008. Pitching for Tampa Bay in Baltimore, he went seven innings in a 6-2 win over the Orioles' Jeremy Guthrie, now his Royals teammate.
"That was pretty special, considering I had made my debut in the same ballpark, Camden Yards, and I got a win out of it. So good stuff," Shields said.
It was pretty special, too, because it launched a Rays season that carried all the way to the first World Series berth in franchise history.
Shields lost to the Red Sox in the 2009 opener and had no-decisions in the '10 and '12 openers, but the Rays won both of those games. [David Price started the Rays' 2011 opener and lost to the Orioles -- and Guthrie.]
The matchup of Verlander and Shields seems like Groundhog Day to the Tigers' big right-hander.
"It seems like every time I face Kansas City, it's with Shields going," Verlander said.
Not quite. But they squared off twice last year and neither earned a decision. On April 25 in Detroit, Verlander was trying to improve on a 15-2 record against the Royals, and he had a 3-2 lead when a right thumb blister stopped him. The Royals, with Alex Gordon hitting a grand slam in the 10th inning, won, 8-3.
Then on June 12 in Kansas City, the Royals again won in the 10th, 3-2, after Verlander had pitched shutout ball for seven innings. Shields gave up two runs, also over seven innings.
Verlander is a Shields fan.
"I really admire the way he attacks the zone. Every year, he's among the leaders in innings pitched, complete games, and that just comes from him attacking the zone -- good, bad, indifferent," Verlander said.
"A lot of times, he does really well attacking. Sometimes he gets beat attacking. It's just the name of the game. You just have to take your chances when you attack the zone as much as he does. And he attacks the zone, gets guys aggressive, causes some swings and misses off of that with his changeup, which is excellent."
Indeed, it's the changeup that has helped Shields make his name.
"Obviously, changeup is his pitch, but he mixes his pitches really well, between his fastball, his four-seamer, his two-seamer, his cutter, his changeup and his curveball. He's able to throw any of those pitches at any time on any count. That's what makes him effective," Eiland said. "He has one of the best right-handed changeups in the game, and it's a big-time swing-and-miss pitch."
Shields also controls both sides of the plate with all those pitches, and he employs another potent weapon -- probably the best right-handed pickoff move in the Major Leagues.
"He controls the running game and fields his position," Eiland said. "I mean, he's got it all. He's a bona fide top-of-the-rotation guy and a perfect guy to have start on Opening Day."
Aside from his pitching credentials, there's another reason the Opening Day honor goes to Shields. He rapidly became one of the team's most prominent leaders after his arrival in 2013.
"He's completely changed how this clubhouse operates, just the kind of vibe he brought over," said young pitcher Danny Duffy. "He's a good dude, a good leader."
"He pulled me aside to look at some video the other day, matter of fact, that actually really helped in the game. Just little things like that -- anything that he sees, he wants everyone to be at their best. Good dude, he embraces the role as leader on this team, and it's been really good having him around. I hope he sticks around."
While Shields is a pitcher of great attributes, there's a chance his Kansas City stay might end after this year. He's coming up on free agency, and so far, there's been no indication that the Royals might offer him a long-term deal to avert that. Shields said there have been no contract talks this spring.
"Right now, I'm just focused on the season, and I haven't really been too worried about it as far as the contract extension goes," Shields said.
Once Opening Day comes around, Shields said there will be no public comments about that matter. He'll be concentrating on winning games.
"It's an exciting time and an honor to start Opening Day, and to do it against one of the best pitchers in the game is good," he said.