Any MLB fans?

[Mehen]

Rockies up 4-1, bottom of the 7th

edit: Rockies still up 4-1, top of 9th, 1 out left.

[Kruzin]

3-0
The brooms will be at the ballpark tomorrow

[Mehen]

4-0, Rockies beat Arizona 6-4 in the final game.

[Kruzin]

ROCKIES !!!

Won a tie breaker just to get a wildcard spot on the playoffs.
Swept The Phillies for the divisional title.
Swept the Diamond Backs for the NL championship!
21 of the last 22 games won.
Best defensive stats in MLB HISTORY.
NL MVP Matt Holliday.

WORLD SERIES HERE WE COME!!

[Kruzin]

[Mehen]

This ALCS game is getting pretty interesting.
Cleveland scored 7 in the 5th to go up 7-0, and then Boston hit 3 solo home runs in a row in the 6th. Middle of the 6th now, 7-3.

[Mehen]

Looks like Colorado will be playing the red-hot Red Sox.

[rylan]

Yup... should be a good series. Sox are on a tear. Game 1 at Fenway this Wed!

[Kruzin]

Sox may be hot, but the Rockies have been hotter!
21/22 games won, swept both playoff series.
Bean Town goin DOWN!
:P

[rylan]

Yeah but its the National League, and everyone knows that the American Leage is better!

[Kruzin]

In their infinite wisdom, the Rockies office decided to only sell tickets on-line, starting at 10am this morning. Only 16k where to be made available.
Their servers where immidiatly flooded and went down. Almost nobody (except ticket 'brokers') got tickets, and sales have been suspended while they try to pull their heads out.
Lotta pissed ppl in Denver right now

[ND66]

It made the news......


But this "there were 8.5 million attempts to connect with the computers in the first 90 minutes after sales started", is there that many fans out there or the whole country wants cash on those tickets?

Rockies suspend World Series ticket sales after computer crash

By COLLEEN SLEVIN, Associated Press Writer
October 22, 2007

DENVER (AP) -- The Colorado Rockies suspended World Series ticket sales Monday after overwhelming demand crashed their computer system.

"Right now we're shutting the system down," club spokesman Jay Alves announced outside Coors Field, drawing boos from fans. "We expect to be online at some point."

"We're as frustrated and disappointed as they are," Alves said.

Alves had said last week that the Rockies were prepared for any computer problems.

On Monday, there were 8.5 million attempts to connect with the computers in the first 90 minutes after sales started, he said, and only several hundred tickets had been sold before the system had to be shut down.

The Rockies put as many as 60,000 tickets up for sale online only, and team officials said their computers were ready to handle the expected crush. But two hours after tickets went on sale, many fans reported they could not get access to the ticket-sales Web site.

Officials with the Rockies and Major League Baseball did not immediately return calls.

Irvine, Calif.-based Paciolan Inc., which is running the computers for the Rockies' World Series ticket sales, said the crash affected the company's entire North American system.

Paciolan CEO Dave Butler said he did not yet know whether demand for Rockies tickets caused the crash.

"This is not the Rockies' fault in anyway whatsoever," Butler said. "We are working hard to address it."

About 20 people lined up in near-freezing temperatures outside the Denver Public Library before it opened in hopes of using public-access computers to score tickets.

"If you can't get tickets here, you're going to have to pay $200, $300 above face value," said Clayton McLeod, a 26-year-old heavy-machine operator who took the day off to try to get seats.

McLeod said he has Internet access from his apartment building but thought the library's computers might be faster. His mother, father, uncle and girlfriend were trying to buy tickets from other computers, he said.

His boss, also a Rockies fan, agreed to give him the day off and asked McLeod to get tickets for him, too.

"We'll see how many I'll get," McLeod said.

The Rockies limited sales to four per person per game.

The Series opens in Boston with games on Wednesday and Thursday. Games 3 and 4 will be on Saturday and Sunday in Denver. If there is a Game 5, it will be played Monday in Denver.

Coors Field seats more than 50,000, but about 30,000 spots per game are allotted to season-ticket holders, the two teams and Major League Baseball.

Season-ticket holders got a chance to buy their tickets last weekend. Prices range from $65 to $250.

Tickets originally were to be sold at Coors Field and Rockies' Dugout Stores in the Denver area, as well as online. The team announced Wednesday all sales would be online, saying that would be more fair.

[Wombat]

Unfortunately, it's the scalpers, I'm sure. They have bots that try to buy the tickets.

However, the games are very popular around here. I know plenty of individuals that were trying to get tickets for the game - I just don't think that the majority of those 8.5 million were from the "little guy" part of the market.

[Kruzin]

Well, you can't say that 8.5 million ppl where trying to get tix. That's just the hits the site got. At least one radio station I was listening too this morning was telling people to camp the site and hit 'ctrl-refresh' around the time sales where to start, to get their best chance of getting in. Each person hits 100-200 refreshes in those first couple hours, and you have 40-80 thousand ppl actually trying.
I'm sure many where scalpers bots too, though (that probably where refreshing thousands of times).

[ND66]

As you know, the more popular team down here is Cubs, so when White Sox were working their way up, they had to remind people on the news radio that tickets were still available for the games…….

When our White Sox made it to the World Series, they allocated so and so tickets for season ticket holders only, and gave them the first shot at buying them.

What a way to say thanks to the real fans….. .