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Greg, I thought you were the one who argued he might be 2-3 years older than his listed age. How would that INCREASE his value?

How are we positioned in North America?** There are around 34,000 people working for Daimler in North America, which represents about 12% of our global workforce. With 140,000 units sold, the US is the largest market in the world for Daimler Trucks. With a total of 165,000 units, Daimler holds a market share of 40% for heavy-duty trucks (class ? and a market share of 39.8% for trucks classes 6 to 8 in North America. 17% of all Mercedes-Benz Cars have been sold in North America in 2017. With 338,000 units sold, the US is the second-largest market for Mercedes-Benz Cars. Mercedes-Benz has been the leading luxury brand in all three NAFTA markets in 2017. With a contract volume of 41.6 billion Euro, the US is the biggest market for Daimler Financial Services. The US is the second-largest market in the world for Sprinter vans. With 3,440 units sold, Mexico is the second largest market for Daimler buses. moovel transit is the market leader for mobile ticketing systems in the USA. 22.8% of Daimler AG's shareholders come from the US.

How many Sox first round picks has Law gotten right?

Minnesota's going to be in danger of losing touch with the Indians....5.5 GB very quickly (thanks White Sox!) Baltimore -22 (but White Sox still have lowest overall winning percentage due to fewer games played) White Sox -21 (0.5 GB) Cincinnati -17 (2.5 GB) Kansas City -16 (3.0 GB) Miami -15 (3.5 GB)

https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=y&type=8&season=2018&month=0&season1=2018&ind=0&team=&rost=&age=33,58&filter=&players= Only six position players above a 1.0 WAR at age 33 and above...

http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/profile.asp?ID=180617 Fwiw, his batting average and OPS went up each consecutive year in the Miami program. Hopefully the same trend continues in the minors. A mere 472 at-bats in 2016 and 2017 shouldn't define anyone as a .230's or .240's hitter, especially if he was changing his mechanics/approach...and those adjustments were going against his "muscle memory" of what made him extremely successful the first 15 years of his baseball career (and perhaps he felt he had no choice but to take their advice as a "rookie" in the organization?)

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/31/us/tom-arnold-roseanne-anderson-cooper-cnntv/index.html Tom Arnold knew Roseanne reboot wouldn't end well... Arnold, who had turbulent four years of marriage with the sitcom star prior to their divorce in 1994 told Cooper that she had a long history of racist tweets. "It's a meme that she and thousands of her alt-right fans do," Arnold said. "They love calling black people monkeys. It's not a one time joke, OK. They do it because we have a white trash racist president. That's a fact. Donald Trump -- Roseanne and I have both known him 30 years. That's an absolute fact." Arnold went on to criticize Trump for his past controversial comments. "I generally believe he thinks black people are dangerous and Mexicans are rapists," Arnold said. "He believes that. As he perpetuates that fear to America, watch out Mueller is lying, he is after me. And so, Americans are sitting home like Roseanne and her fans, are like, oh my God, what is happening out there? And they get anxiety. " ... Arnold also questioned whether Trump was really ever a fan of his former wife or just wanted to take credit for her ratings' success. He told Cooper of a time that Trump criticized her directly after their divorce. "He's with Melania and I'm with my wife at the time, Shelby Roos, who's a political consultant," Arnold said. "And he said to me, oh my gosh, you married up in the world. And he goes, Roseanne was disgusting. And he said that to me out of the blue. Like, you know what, no matter what kind of divorce you had, that's a weird thing to say."

Yeah, I could see 25%. But 52%? Maybe it's a confusing survey question...like that old adage about "78% of American university students have kissed another girl at least once (while drunk or sober) before graduating"...that ends up registering people as "bi-sexual" instead.

That's just a big WOW for me...but I have been living outside the US for most of the last decade plus. Generation Z and diversity By 2020, more than half of the kids in the U.S. will be members of a minority — making Generation Z the first for which diversity is the norm. Gen Z-ers are also the first to grow up during a time when same-sex marriage is not a hot-button political issue — it’s a constitutional right. It should come as no surprise then that their social leanings are progressive. Many of their favorite peer celebrities, like Rowan Blanchard and Amandla Stenberg, identify as queer, and only 48 percent of Gen Z-ers identify as heterosexual. As 19-year-old trans artist Chella Man tells Yahoo Lifestyle, “My identity is valid although most of it falls on a spectrum between standard categories.” ... Generation Z. The iGeneration. Post-millennials. The Founders. There are a handful of monikers intended to neatly define those born between roughly 1998 and 2015, but at this point “Generation Z” seems to be the one with the staying power. As this group of 61 million young Americans — which makes up 26 percent of the U.S. population — enters its formative years, who exactly is the future of this country and what are they all about? Asking Gen Z-ers to define themselves, they say they are “innovative,” “self-aware,” “resilient,” and “woke .” They are the children of Generation X and have been raised amid an America in tumult, finding themselves on the front lines of a divided nation. In a series of articles now on Yahoo Lifestyle, we get to know this rising generation and what makes its members so powerful, so opinionated, and so unique. This is Gen Z. https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/innovative-resilient-woke-ready-not-generation-z-arrived-000106846.html

This might be a better gamble for the Royals (or the other team with an abundance of high picks)...who have less to lose, in a way, because they're going to be bottoming out a couple of years from now in terms of talent in their organization. With the White Sox, everything has to be pointing towards a competitive team in 2021, basically. This is a classic "long term" gamble that most "win now" oriented teams are going to avoid.

http://www.dailyherald.com/sports/20180529/if-pitching-is-draft-priority-for-white-sox-singer-is-logical-target Scott Gregor, fwiw, argues that the Sox will take Madrigal but, if not available, Singer's likely to be the pick at #4 "We've seen what he is since high school," Hostetler said. "We've seen him a lot. We have a long track record with him. You're talking about a big-game Friday night guy that has taken the ball every Friday night against the best teams in the country and the best conference (SEC) in the country, and he's put up just amazing numbers." Just to make sure Singer is fully recovered, the White Sox will have a scout on hand Friday when the No. 1-seeded Gators open NCAA tourney play at home against Columbia. During the regular season, Singer led the conference in wins (10) and ERA (2.25) while holding hitters to a .186 average and striking out 92 in 88 innings. As a sophomore last year, the Eustis, Fla., native was 9-5 with a 3.21 ERA to go with 129 strikeouts in 126 innings. "Coming into the season, he was the guy a lot of people thought was going to be the top college pitcher in the draft," Hostetler said.

Well, that article makes all the arguments why he won't do that (full-time) until at least 2020 (unlesshe either gets hurt this fall or loses the starting job, as he already has transferred once from Texas A&M)...obviously, they can't draft him unless they pretty much have a deal in place to let him play both sports until that time, or they'll lose a significant amount of money from their bonus pool.

Yes, BigSqwert. Europe is MUCH MUCH more liberalized in this area. Same thing with drinking a "moderate" amount of alcohol with meals. Because of Christian backlash as well as the Catholic Church, it's (pornography) always been a "shame" and "family values" issue in America. But go to cities like Amsterdam, Prague, Budapest, Paris, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kiev, Berlin...you won't know what hit you. Or even Brazil, Colombia, etc. Yet how many of those European countries have problems with guns/violence?

The smart thing would be for the White Sox to invest money into BOTH Thomas and OU's Kyler Murray...knowing that Murray will stay at QB (he can play pro ball in the summers until it conflicts with football practices in mid August) for the next two seasons, then start playing baseball full-time in 2020. http://www.tulsaworld.com/sportsextra/ousportsextra/guerin-emig-kyler-murray-can-have-too-much-fun-quarterbacking/article_566714ee-7f88-5df3-ad53-a674012e0cfd.html?modalid=followed-notification-modal-8add51d8-214e-11e3-83df-0019bb30f31a You simply have to get creative and maximize your opportunities when you get shots at unique, first-round talents outside of that round. This would be one such situation where the Sox could afford to be patient with all the outfield talent currently in the organization. It won't happen...partly because everyone will say "that's a pure KW play," but that doesn't mean Hahn shouldn't at least consider it carefully.

Especially in the South. I'm guessing she means those convenience stores that used to have magazines like Playboy/Penthouse/Hustler on the top shelves in plastic wrap? The grocery stores used to have Maxim (or similar magazines), but it has been 30 years since I would have considered looked for one (physically), lol...

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/entry-level-job-store-harder-073647686.html Climbing the entry level ladder at retail/fast food jobs is getting harder and harder...

Seems the push of India into the 4-6 range has lost its momentum...for whatever reason. By the way, what happened with McClanahan? Never hear his name mentioned anymore. TJS?

Maybe they're frustrated they're still not the WORST team in baseball because of those pesky and putrid Orioles? Discussing how can they lose even more in order to secure the #1 pick in 2019? Perhaps take out Manny on a slide so he can't be traded at the deadline? I jest.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/30/kim-kardashian-west-white-house-trump-prison-reform-pardons-613941 Because you just know when the Kardashians, the FREAKING KOCHS, Jared Kushner (prison reform is yet another item on his portfolio, along with streamlining the Federal government, peace in the Middle East, trade relationships with Mexico/Central and South America!!!) and Donald Trump all are aligned about prison sentencing...it's not going to work out well for the rest of the country. https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/30/politics/donald-trump-jr-roseanne/index.html Why is Donald Trump Jr.'s retweeting role in the Roseanne Scandal being universally overlooked?

For high school hitters and pitchers, they mean almost nothing. Shawon Dunston would have been a first-ballot HoF guy if they went by those video game numbers.

The "clear rebuilders" and the "serious contenders" have never been divided into two groups so quickly. Even teams like the Pirates, A's and Tigers ultimately know what side of the ledger they're on already. With much less indecision about making a move (adding or subtracting), it FEELS like there should be more moves this year than in previous seasons. There's so much pressure for teams like the M's to finally make the playoffs...on the Angels with their payroll and yet Trout hasn't been able to push them all the way through, Cardinals/Cubs/Brewers, the NL West with Colorado, Arizona, SF (they're forcing an attempt to contend when they should have rebuilt) and the Dodgers will obviously fight to get back into this at some point.

Madrigal has been reported to be “Gold Glove-caliber” at 2B by NUMEROUS publications. When it gets to him playing SS, the arm concerns come up (see Yolmer)...with that being seen as a position quite a few scouts/GM’s would like to see him try first until he proves he can or can’t handle it. There have been reports that he’s not great with lateral quickness/range, even though he has excellent sprint speed forwards and backwards. Almost universally, everyone praises his hands and practice habits and argues he would work harder than anyone else to make himself great at any position he was assigned to (see Alex Gordon in LF).

For whatever it’s worth, the rate for a 30 second commercial on Roseanne was about $167,000 (8 episodes) for this past season. That was #5. For the upcoming season (12 episodes), it was reported to be a $400,000 (or $800k per minute) rate for 30 secs, #1 in the industry. As for why Trump is complaining about ABC/Disney, it’s probably the same complaints he consistently makes about CNN, MSNBC, WaPo, NYT...basically, any news network that’s NOT Fox, local/regional newspapers (mostly conservative now) or call-in radio shows (85-90% conservative) like Limbaugh or Huckabee’s program. Don’t ever recall a specific episode with ABC/Stephanapolous.

One of the points you’ve made in this thread is that the IC is/was against Trump. What are you basing that on, other than James Clapper constantly going after Trump in the media....which the ACTUAL intelligence community is completely against, as they believe that politicizing their work is anathema and not constructive for future funding purposes. Rogers? I just don’t get it. Trump has gone out of his way to support the military/defense industrial complex. He wants to build them more ships and nuclear weapons and give them more ways to destroy the enemy...more than they even asked for in their appropriations requests, an increase of of at least 10%. Trump has gone out of his way to say how popular he was at his CIA speech in the weeks after he became president...and also goes out of his way to speak at the service academies, and surround himself with patriotic symbols. That’s the typical Republican...not just Trump. Hillary Clinton, for her part, was unlikely to ask for nearly so much money for the military...as her husband wanted to cut military spending and reinvest it into areas like education, training, infrastructure, the Internet/tech, domestic programs. Other than cuts to the “deep state” bureaucracy of the State Department (which is most definitely not the IC), where are we getting the idea he wanted to go to war with the CIA or NSA?

Learned something interesting from the Barons’ broadcast at Rickwood. Since that game is about diversity/inclusion, they mentioned how Dunning’s mother is actually 100% South Korean, so that made him Asian-American or biracial or however you want to classify it. Apparently, she’s actually around 5’8” and her family is also pretty tall. (Note: Dane is listed at 6’4”) He has a cool tattoo, “One Blood,” as well. So that’s different, has been ages since Takatsu and Iguchi...of course, they were Japanese. I know we also signed a Korean pitcher somewhere along the way to a decent-sized bonus but he didn’t get out of A ball.