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Day 2 FA has been postponed until tomorrow.  I may have to run days 4 and 5 at the same time to get it in before I leave for the trip.

As everyone has probably noticed the site .... has... been.... running...extremely....slow....today.

earlier this morning a drive in the raid array failed.  There was about 15 minutes when the site was inaccessible while a new hard drive was being put in place, and it's been running like a dog since then.  After the drive was put into place, the raid array needed to be rebuilt, and that's what's causing the sluggishness.

Because of that happening today, I didn't get a chance to finish day 2 FA before I had to leave for work.  So it's going to have to be run tomorrow.  Sorry about that.

I know database servers can be a dog sometimes, but one bad disk bringing our FA period down is pretty lame. Just imaging we were paying customers ...
:-)

btw, couldn't we move our forum to a VMware host server and go completely virtual?

lame?  if a drive fails and all you get is slow performance, that's quite good :)

What do you mean vmware?  this site (as well as my other personal sites) is already on its own box....

hardware problems will always happen, unfortunately.

cool, i can finally rest a bid, i did my job on FA Day 1....and my roster is full and set for new season, so my FA is over anyway, now i cant wait for TC.

Me either! :lol:

shut up :P

2015    182    Knicks    Sign C Carlos Boozer for $46,340,000 over 3 years.
2015    182    Cavs    Sign PG Ricky Fisher for $32,400,000 over 5 years.
2015    182    Supersonics    Sign PF Drew Gooden for $7,812,400 over one year.
2015    182    Raptors    Sign SG Josh Childress for $33,100,000 over 3 years.
2015    182    Pacers    Sign SG Cole Sapp for $10,000,000 over 2 years.
2015    182    Suns    Sign SF Quentin Richardson for $8,500,000 over one year.
2015    182    Suns    Sign C Chris Kaman for $11,340,000 over 2 years.
2015    182    Mavericks    Sign PF A.J. Dial for $4,500,000 over one year.
2015    182    Supersonics    Sign PG Roland Talbott for $653,350 over one year.
2015    182    Nuggets    Sign SF Max Marshall for $1,200,000 over one year.
2015    182    Supersonics    Sign PG Steve Francis for $1,000,000 over one year.
2015    182    Nets    Sign C Darko Milicic for $12,000,000 over 2 years.
2015    182    Supersonics    Sign C Billy Cunningham for $965,850 over one year.
2015    182    Rockets    Sign SG Luke Ridnour for $1,000,000 over one year.
2015    182    Magic    Sign C Charles Lavalley for $4,500,000 over one year.
2015    182    Bucks    Sign C Carl Harpring for $4,500,000 over one year.
2015    182    Heat    Sign C Quentin Brand for $1,200,000 over one year.
2015    182    Wizards    Sign SG Alvin Zollner for $778,350 over one year.
2015    182    Celtics    Sign C Michael Doleac for $1,200,000 over one year.
2015    182    Magic    Sign C Steven Hunter for $1,200,000 over one year.
2015    182    Bulls    Sign PF Carson Yong for $1,200,000 over one year.
2015    182    Rockets    Sign SF Gert Hornick for $590,850 over one year.
2015    182    Supersonics    Sign PF Reggie Evans for $1,000,000 over one year.

shit ...

Thank God. Jesus I was worried after day 1.

Guess 32Million, 2  year deal wasnt enough for childress. That like 5 more a year then raps, and I overpayed ALOT

I cant stand this free agency. I came in with a approach of not overpaying for people, Giving them what they deserve, And I get screwed.

Well, his loyalty and his play for winner are both much higher than his greed.

I just love the fact that I was able to get him back on a resonable contract.

I overpayed for boozer... But atleast I will have 1 max contract ready for next year.

nice, i lost out on Boozer but actually I had little alternative in my FA.

Sure, I could have thrown 16+ mio at him and signed him back. But that would also mean three things
- I enter hard salary cap hell
- I have just 3 frontcourt guys capeable of playing big minutes (Sampson, Boozer, Strait)
- and I am not even allowed to sign minimum fillers anymore to give me backup big men

So I tried to stay within the hard cap (having 12mio to spend) with my offer to Boozer and either sign some backup big men as well or - even better- hope he waits another day before signing. I knew the Knicks were desperate but I hoped Booze would take the longterm offer from me ... or I can increase my offer for DAY3. My current offer beat everyone else and I couldn't see the Knicks offering more than a 1yr deal.

Didn't happen ...

The Knicks shelved out 14mio for 3 seasons (killing their FA plans for next year, where they could have found an even better FA class). Booze will get them 10 more wins, dropping the draft pick a few spots in the process. Great plan.

I knew Boozer's loyalty (67) existed only on paper and that in reality his greed (2) contolled his actions, but nevertheless i'm disappointed.


It may not matter too much since I wouldn't have started CB anyway, but with Sampson/Strait/Doleac my frontcourt is pretty thin and Dirk may have to help out there (unless I manage to find another big man to play backup minutes). So right now it's just a wakeup call, but beware any injuries ...
 :?

was kinda hoping to re-sign Gooden and really Dial. I offered both a 2 year deal, but I'm so close to the hard cap that I didn't want to go over :(

Nice got Dial with my MLE.  Really needed a big man since I lost Hump to Cavs. 

Lavalley and Hunter are pretty good signings for me. I overpayed Lavalley for the MLE though. Still, they make my frontcourt defensive which is really a big plus with a frontcourt player like Biedrins who can't even block a lick, and the departure of the 2 Al's.