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Break out the cleaning products, time to dust off the ol' blog.

Posted on June 24, 2009 at 08:11 AM.

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Hello friends. I've been getting the itch to blog again so it is with great excitement that I've decided to fix up my OS Arena a bit and get to typing out my thoughts in blog form yet again.

There certainly is no shortage of things to discuss here. We have huge game releases on the horizon. It's a big sports week with the NBA draft coming up Thursday. We have TONS of new folks on the OS forums, likely migrating here thanks to people like Madden's Ian Cummings and NCAA's Russell Kiniry posting regularly now. And last but certainly not least, I've become a father since my last blog post. With all that said, let's get into it.

We'll start with the fatherhood stuff. Catherine turns 2-months old today. Unbelievable how fast time flies. That was one of the many things people told me before she was born. That, and "get your sleep while you CAN!!!" Turns out one of the two are true. Time indeed does go by quickly but we've been lucky and the little peanut sleeps pretty much through the night now.

Tomorrow is her 2-month doctor's visit and with that comes her 2-month shots. It's amazing. We've spent the last 2-months of our lives trying to protect her with everything we have, yet tomorrow we turn her over to a doctor so he can poke her with a bunch of needles. My poor baby.

On the sports front, tomorrow is the NBA draft and with that comes the winds of change blowing through the league. Two big trades yesterday will give some cap relief to some, while adding much needed cogs to other teams. I can't wait to see the Spurs with Richard Jefferson in the lineup. That'll be entertaining.

Time for all of you Bobcats' fans out there (all 3 of you) to join me in wishing Sean May well in his future endeavors. Looks like he'll no longer be taking up a roster spot and a seat on the bench as GM Rod Higgins yesterday announced the team has elected not to offer him a qualifying offer, making him an unrestricted free agent. Thank God! I have a Bobcats' #42 jersey that they gave away to the first 5,000 fans one game that I've worn more times than he's worn his own jersey.

Little known fact about the Sean May-Charlotte Bobcats era. The night of that draft where Charlotte took both Raymond Felton and May in the 1st round, the New Orleans Hornets offered up their #2 pick for both of Charlotte's 1st round selections. Translation...the Bobcats could've had Chris Paul! Now answer me this. Today, if you could trade Felton and May and get Paul in return, wouldn't you do it? Fantastic decsion not to pull the trigger on that draft day deal, Bobcats!

Now onto the fun stuff - the state of the OS Forums. We, as a collective group of moderators, have been getting tons of complaints of some of the new forum members stirring up trouble, particularly in the Madden and NCAA forums.

Because of this, we've taken a more heavy handed stance with how we handle those two forums. More people are getting infractions. More people are losing access to those forums in one-month increments. And more people are being banned from OS all together than ever before. We're doing our best to deal with the problem children of this forum and all we ask is for your cooperation in return.

If you see a post that may be a TOS violation, use the "Report Post" feature.
If you see a moderator (red, orange, or green name) chime in on a thread with orders to calm things down, do it.
And DO NOT, under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, think that just because we have developers posting on our forums, you are somehow entitled to a response from them on every single post you write. Those guys post here on their own time and do their best to answer the forum's more popular concerns. If your pet concern is something you're the only one asking about, chances are your question will go unanswered. Deal with it.

And as always, if you have any suggestions or opinions of how we're handling the forums, while we'd prefer you handle that through PM's with our forum admin, Millennium, feel free to post those concerns here in replying to this blog post. I'll do an entire blog post on how we mod these forums at some point. But for now, feel free to chime in with your comments on how we're doing as a whole.

That's all for now, folks. Have a great Wednesday!