Colorado Review

Planning to be in Denver this weekend when the Colorado Rockies face the Boston Red Sox in Games 3 & 4 of the World Series? Chances are, even if you wanted to go to this exciting match-up, you won’t be able to get tickets. That is, unless you pay the big bucks from ticket brokers like TicketsNow.com. On this site, they range from about $750 to $1500!

Yesterday, Rockies management began selling tickets online for a much more reasonable $65 to $250. However, a whopping 8.5 million users jammed the server within 90 minutes of tickets going on sale. The server crashed and the site closed soon after.

Needless to say, Rockies baseball fans were a bit disappointed. Colorado newspapers today published many stories of folks who took off from work, or went to public libraries to use Internet-connected computers and came up empty.

Originally, the Rockies were going to sell tickets in person at Coors Field on Monday. But then came up with the online-only plan to make ticket buying more fair.

Ha!

Seems like ticket brokers with several servers and/or speedy Internet connections may have bought many tickets (or at least they were among the throngs of people logging on to buy them). Only a few hundred tickets were sold before the ticket-selling website had to be shut down.

Now, the Rockies will re-launch the ticket-selling website today, Tuesday, at noon. The company that runs the computers for the Rockies’ ticket sales promises that is has a back-up system in place, according to the Associated Press. The company also claims that the servers went down yesterday because of a “malicious attack” (but no further details are available).

Only about 19,000 tickets of more than 50,000 seats are for sale. The rest of the seats/tickets go to season ticket holders and members of the team and Major League Baseball.

Colorado Rockies, Major League Baseball