The pious-but-technologically-inept Colorado Rockies started offering tickets to Games 3, 4, and 5 of the World Series at 10am Mountain Time this morning. They were to be offered only online. There roughly 50,000 tickets available. But guess what? Only a few hundred were sold.
Apparently, the Rockies didn’t anticipate their servers being inundated with all four Rockies fans - and a lot more Red Sox fans (myself included). The Rockies reported getting 8.5 million hits to their site in the first hour and a half. Whoops.
After reload after reload after reload by frustrated fans (and, in my case, throwing objects across the room), the Rockies finally removed the link to purchase tickets from their site about two hours after sales were supposed to begin.
The most hilarious part - a spokesman for the Rockies made an announcement to the press as an angry mob of fans creeped closer and closer to him while chanting, “WE WANT TICKETS! WE WANT TICKETS!”
There’s no word yet on when they’ll be back up. Or whether it’s worth getting $250 tickets to games that will probably be snowed out.
Hey guys: many thanks for putting up a link to my site, The Mighty Quinn Media Machine. I’m putting one up for you on my site today. Much success with The SportsBlahg!
The Omnipotent Q
October 22nd, 2007
An angry mob of Rockies fans? I didn’t realize 2 people qualified as a “mob”.
brooklyn gal
October 22nd, 2007