Monday Morning Rockpile:

Go me.

SpongeDan... considering EVERYONE seems to be having problems with the ticket server... I'd say that's pretty equitable. ;)

or for that mater ev15
not to mention ev8

Although - and I don't know if this is just me - I kind of think 14 is attractive.

I realize I know the numbers....but still

The company, Paciolan, Inc. which runs evenue.net, said it didn't know exactly what the problem was and that it was working to fix the issue.

Oh, bandwagon fans, I hope you get your tickets too. I think you should be required to either list the lineup from top to bottom or spell Tulowitzki in order to get tickets.

thanks Monforts (I don't know if they have anything to do with this...but I blame them for everything)

You may only purchase your spicy ground beef World Series ticket between the hours of 2-5 p.m. on Tuesday, October 23 at participating Taco Bell restaurants. Without a map telling you which franchises. That would have been more enjoyable than this.

I'm still plugging away. Plan B is immenent, however.

I have stuff to do....

No tickets will be sold in person.  

a Few hundred tickets sold.

Is that 8.5 million figure I saw on an earlier post correct? Yikes... no wonder the server folded like a tent.

I did like the quote that Baseball Think Factory pulled from 7 News' online story: "Biggest debauchery in Denver Sports history."

Um... 'debauchery'... that word... I do not think it means what you think it means.

Every minute, they refresh.

I still can't order tickets, but it's almost like I'm being productive.

I'm thinking gladitorial brawl.  It's fair, and would eliminate the Red Sox quotient.

b) This series reminds me strongly of 2003. Powerhouse east coast team vs. scrappy 1993 expansion team, nobody gives the latter a chance, they win it in six. Oh, and Josh Beckett was on the winning side last time. Irony's a bitch this time... Seeing as the Sawx are now the Yankees, this couldn't be any more appropriate.

c) If we DO have all these purported angels flying around in the outfield, why are they going to let us down now? Who do they have to compete with, Cryogenically Frozen Ted Williams?

d) We've lost one game since the middle of September. Why are we going to lose four in a week and a half?

e) Last year a "powerhouse" American League team was picked to take down the inferior National League team in "three." We all saw how that turned out.

f) Rust, schmust. The White Sox had six days off in 2005 and swept the Astros. Seven of ten teams with five or more days off swept the Series. It's all in their heads, and they don't think it'll matter. We'll be rested, ready, and focused.

g) The Rockies have that winning mentality (AND IT TOOK THE HELL LONG ENOUGH!) Even if they lose Game 1, as they might (or might not) they're not going to collapse like a tent. It'll be a good series.

h) The Red Sox play in the AL, sure. The AL East, and that is a pair of 800-lb gorillas squashing the fragile baby chimps. They get to feast on the Blue Jays, D-Rays, and Orioles.

i) We play in the National League West, which -- hold the phone! -- is a better division top to bottom, with the exception of the Giants. Our road stats are also somewhat skewed by the fact that we play so much at Petco and Dodger Stadium, two of the most extreme pitcher's parks in the majors.

j) Was the series in June just a small sample size? Yeah, but so is the Series. It gives the guys the psychological edge to know they can win there. At that time, the Red Sox were far and away the best team in baseball, and the only other team to win a series against them at Fenway was the Yankees. Josh Beckett was still undefeated and we tagged him for six runs and ten hits in five innings. Atkins hit a grand slam over the Monster. Later on, Holliday also hit a homer over the Monster. Atkins' double was off the very top. Who's scared of that ridiculous wall?

k) We've dealt with yahoos, bozos, and morons in the opposing city before. See: Philadelphia.

l) However, it is imperative that we do not allow Coors to turn into Fenway West. If this crazy ticket situation is ever resolved, those of you who do go had better cheer twice as much.

m) Wakefield and Matsuzaka will not fare well in Coors. Nor will Manny in that cavernous left field and Ortiz attempting to play first.

I still stand by my prediction that it'll be the Rockies in five. Maybe six. Will it be easy? Hell no. That's not our style. Never a blowout or two to soothe the nerves. Will I be hiding under the desk when Fuentes faces Youkilis/Papi/Ramirez in the bottom of the eighth at a crazy Fenway? Hell yeah. Are we gonna win it? Hell yeah.

Directs a movie about us.

This is a great poster:

http://www.denverpost.com/portlet/article/html/imageDisplay.jsp?contentItemRelationshipId=1697918

http://www.denverpost.com/rockies/ci_7244597

I love this part:

Flush with playoff share money and a feel-good script, Spilborghs landed stars from the A-list. Still no A-Rod. But A-list, nonetheless. Their presence made Spilborghs ditch his original idea of a "Blair Witch Project" - video-style, using a handheld cam during his starts in the outfield.

Rockies World Series Ticket Onsale

This morning the Rockies' ticketing provider Paciolan experienced a system wide outage that is impacting all of their North American customers. They are working hard to resume service as soon as possible and apologize to their customers and all fans for this impact.

We're talking about a major player in online ticketing (Paciolan), who sold about 25% of all live events in the US last year, over 100 million tickets all told.

Also, whatever the problem was took down all North American sales, not just the Rockies.  At this point, we don't know if the WS ticket debacle had anything to do with it, but my own gut tells me it was somehow related.

Ticketmaster is about to acquire Paciolan, and Ticketmaster sold about 120 million tickets last year - it's Paciolan's penetration into sporting events (pro and college) that Ticketmaster wants into.  This is not some fly by night operation that offered to help the Rox move a few tickets for a cheap rate.

As for the 8.5M hits, yeah, no way these were unique visits, but how many people out there were doing what I was doing?  That includes my Mom online, my wife online, my brother online, and my nephew online.  Of course, I was online, and refreshing in both Firefox and IE.  After a while, I was on my iPhone too.  The fact that we were having problems made us refresh more, get more friends on, try from other PCs, and so on, so I feel those numbers are inflated - had we been getting tickets, we wouldn't have been generating as many hits.

I just hope that when they are ready to sell, that they announce it and give us a reasonable heads up.  You talk about sticking it to the real fans, I've been checking the Post, the Rocky, 9News, News4, and Channel 7 every 15-20 minutes for updates, fearful to let my guard down that I might miss my chance.

Online today/tonight
Online tomorrow
In person at Coors Field/Dugout stores

Both said the "sentiment" was for online sales