Reason #11 To Love Philadelphia: 76ers Marketing Team

Actual email sent from the 5-9 76ers marketing department this morning:

How would you like to GUARANTEE NOW that if the 76ers qualify for the 2007 NBA Playoffs, YOU can be THERE to see them play – AND, that you’ll receive your playoff tickets at face-value?

The 76ers have teamed up again with TicketRESERVE to provide a clear path for 76ers fans to reserve face-value seats to ALL FOUR ROUNDS of the 2007 NBA Playoffs.

TicketRESERVE’s 2007 NBA market is NOW OPEN, and Philadelphia is among the first teams to be offered! New teams will be introduced each week as the season progresses.

Ahh, yes. A team that’s won 36 percent of its 14 games so far is surely headed right for the playoffs! Lovely.

Get Your Playoff Tickets Now! [Sixers.com]

Cops Respond to Ongoing Threat Of Bubbles

E-Mail from a reader:

There are approximately 30 po-po vehicles at Love Park right now. Mr. Bubble, perhaps?

My guess? Somebody forgot to keep her bubbles back at home and Melvin Fortune took it out on her.

Yesterday: Keep Your Bubbles Back At Home, People

In honor, of course, of St. Pantytime

I knew there was a reason I was excited about this store coming to Philadelphia.

Two new stores. [American Apparel Daily Update]

And Peter Forsberg says LOL

Hello, 2006! We’ll begin today with something a little stupid — okay, very stupid — but amusing nonetheless. If you’re not a regular reader here, or you’re just not very perceptive, you might have not noticed that I’m kind of a big nerd. Not like a D&D/Philadelphia Science Fiction Convention nerd — please — but one nonetheless.

And, so, yesterday I was playing my Xbox season of NHL 2006. In recent years, a bunch of the sports video games have added features that let you be the GM of whatever sport you’re playing. Some of the features are normal (setting ticket prices, signing contracts, etc.) and some are pretty silly (like getting emails from players).

And, yesterday, I got an email from a Flyers forward Simon Gagne during my season. And here’s what I got:

Simon Gagne (or at least his video game equivalent) uses emoticons. Sadly, I didn’t get an email from Bobby Clarke saying “OMG Eric Lindros sucks!”