Tickets went on sale at 10am this morning...on the Rockies website only. Meaning anyone who has internet access and a credit card could get them. Well, the fucking site got 8.5 million hits in 90 minutes and only 500 of the estimated 60,000 tickets available were actually sold. The online purchasing system has since shut down temporarily.
The Rockies announced they were going to have a press conference at 5pm MDT. They came out at 6pm to say that they would have an announcement by 10pm. Not AT 10pm, BY 10pm.
Hundreds went downtown to Coors Field to protest the bullshit and a few blocks were actually cordoned off by the police, but I don't think that's being reported.
Personally, at work, the office I work in has 7 computers, and only 3 people work there, including me. We had all of them manned and didn't get one connect, not even a hint of one.
A computer lab down the hall (I work on a campus that has 3 universities on it) from our office had a line all the way down the hall with people either just trying to use the lab or trying to get tickets. Needless to say, people were getting quite pissed.
There were even stories of people getting to the checkout screen only to have the server freeze and boot them off.
Someone in Boston enlighten me on how the Sox handled selling their tickets because it MUST have been better than this debacle.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs2007/news/story?id=3074302
Picture of an fan outside Coors.
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Edited by Penguarky Tunguin (10/22/07 09:49 PM)
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