Flip The Switch On-Sale Starts NOW! Also, A Mailbag
FLIP THE SWITCH ON SALE NOW!
The regular on-sale for Flip The Switch is on at THIS LINK. After you're done buying tickets because you love every Ricky event you go to, especially the charitable ones, scroll down and read this week's mailbag.
Every penny we make will go to The Providence Animal Center and Coded By Kids.
WHAT: Rights To Ricky Sanchez - Flip The Switch
DATE: April 11th, 2020
TIME: Doors at 6pm, Show at 7pm (VIP 5p-6p)
AGES: 21+ (sorry!)
WHERE: Underground Arts (the site of Live Ricky 1 with TJ)
TiCKETS: Tickets are available at this link
$15.00 - Regular on-sale General Admission
$75.00 - VIP (VIP Ticket includes early admission, one-hour VIP open bar, full tamale bar with vegan option, commemorative autographed poster, Meet & Greet with Spike, Mike, SixersAdam, AU, Derek Bodner, Mike O'Connor, all the sponsors, and other special guests, and maybe some puppies from Providence)
WHAT IS HAPPENING AT THE PARTY? A LOT!
1. A live pod, with an extended Mike game and a new Spike poem. We'll predict whether the Sixers will flip the switch with some guests!
2. A watch party (Sixers vs. Pels), where we do our own announcing for at least part of the game.
3. A sweaty cell phone picture hang deep into the evening.
4. Get a LEGAL photo with the newly legal SixersAdam as he holds a giant driver's license thing that his head pops through (for a small donation).
5. Get a drawing of yourself by Abbie (@digrupert) for a small donation.
6. Get a picture with the Hinkie banner (for a small donation).
3. A GOOD CAUSE! All proceeds go to our charities.
MAILBAG VOLUME 2
Before we get going, make sure you check out last night's pod, and read AU on the fact that we do not have to pretend Simmons and Embiid are best friends.
It is so refreshing to see the Sixers actually acknowledging that guards are aloud to shoot/score the basketball. Alec Burks has over taken Furk to become our best offensive player. Oh boy what a year. - Ian
I remember during the Process years when we got Ish Smith the first time. Then I remember when we got Ish Smith the second time. I also remember when we got Tim Frazier, and Larry Drew II.
Every time we got a player who actually resembled a point guard, it felt like this was the best player we had ever seen for a game or two. Ish Smith's reign over that spot actually lasted more than a few games, and eventually convinced Jerry Colangelo. Even Nerlens Noel said it was the first real point guard he had played with!
So far this season I've truly believed at different times that Trey Burke (on a minimum deal and released), and Furkan Korkmaz (didn't pick up his option, on a minimum deal, were the team's best offensive players.
In short, you're right. Alec Burks is their best offensive player. Today at least.
Is it just me or does Alec Burks have 20% more Jonathan Simmons than I want to admit? - AJ
You're writing this like it's negative. I'm hoping the more we see him it gets closer to 40%.
You see, the joy of victory and the agony of defeat are feelings that escape me now. But, when I saw Simmons decide to take over, or when I saw James Ennis get possessed by such a feeling, it really warmed my heart.
"I've got this." - Jonathon Simmons, always.
I’m sitting in the library at Temple University, supposed to be studying for an exam, instead I can’t stop thinking about the Sixers’ struggles, and where it all went wrong. Obviously all of this is being looked at in hindsight, however I personally believe that expediting “the process” was the downfall. I need your thoughts on this - Max
Well, I'd say the first time is when the Sixers allowed David Stern (yes, he was involved), and Adam Silver get involved in who is running the basketball team. Then once they allowed the league to force Jerry Colangelo on them, they waited idly by as Jerry not-so-slyly got his son the GM job without really interviewing everyone else. That is the start of it.
But once Bryan took over (who is Jerry's son, the guy who hired his own son to run the team), I would agree that the idea that you can "speed it up" was at the core of the front office blunders over the last several years. I think also that broadcasting that fact when they didn't need to also put them in worse bargaining position long before the Matisse Thybulle trade became our example for that.
Let's just think about this in a really obvious, logical way... if you could speed up the process of becoming a great team just by deciding to do it, who wouldn't do that? Everyone would do it! Trying to speed things up isn't the challenge, it's trying not to speed things up that's the challenge.
You remember how ephedra didn't really do anything bad to you, and neither did caffeine, but when they were taken together they became this neutron bomb of energy? That's sort of like the the combination of the desire to speed things up, and then the Fultz trade. Taken together, it really was the Stacker 2 of the era.
Spike, you are a prophet. Today I listened to a throwback podcast where the two of you broke down the big board for the 2016 draft after the Sixers landed the number 1 overall pick. Mike was very high on Wade Baldwin (yuck), and seemed a bit skeptical on Simmons being the pick over Ingram (to which both Derek Bodner and I would scoff in disgust). Spike, you had Furkan Korkmaz at number 5 on your big board. That alone deserves Bell-Ringing Duty, and truly made my week. - Ryan
There is no question here. Just wanted to include the email calling me a prophet because I said Furkan Korkmaz would be the 5th best player in the NBA Draft.
Is it just me or is Embiid at risk of developing smoker’s arms? - Marc
Who let this guy in here? (Yes of course he is)
Would love to hear your thoughts on who would win a 5 on 5 game: 5 Ben Simmons and 5 Joel Embiids. Yes, the Embiid's would be able to post the Simmons's at will, but a) would they be able to handle the double teams, and b) the Simmons's would own transition.
As an extension, if there was a tournament with 5 of every Sixer, who would win?
-Anish
I like this question a lot, it strikes me as the basketball version of "who would win in a fight, a bear or a shark?" or "who would win in a fight, a man with no arms or a man with no legs?"
I actually think the questions is pretty easy when you think about it actually happening. Sure, Embiid is a much better shooter than Simmons, and sure, Embiid would destroy Simmons on the post. The problem is that I just don't think the team of five Joel Embiids will be able to get the ball up the court.
All in all, it would be only slightly uglier than a normal Sixers game.
As for the tournament, I think we agreed earlier in the email that it's Alec Burks.
Also, shark. And finally, man with no legs.
Love you.
Spike