why didn't the ALCS trophy get awarded on the field last night? I don't think i have ever seen a championship trophy get awarded in the locker room.
Originally posted by: AStar617
Originally posted by: OdiN
Originally posted by: Mr Incognito
Sox in seven games.
Rox in four.
Originally posted by: AStar617
Butch Stearns of FOX25 just agreed with my prediction of a Sox victory in six games. :thumbsup:
FOX is freaking biased as hell.
I'm talking about our local Boston affiliate sportscaster, not the national commentators (who, by the way, have long been "anyone-but-Boston" fans).
Originally posted by: Citrix
why didn't the ALCS trophy get awarded on the field last night? I don't think i have ever seen a championship trophy get awarded in the locker room.
Rockies suspend World Series ticket sales after computer crash
By Colleen Slevin, Associated Press | 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 of the fans.
The Rockies said up to 20,000 tickets would be available for each World Series game in Denver but opted for online sales only, saying that would be the most fair.
Alves said last week the Rockies were prepared for any computer problems. But he said Monday there 8.5 million hits, or attempts to connect with the computers, in the first 90 minutes after sales started.
Only several hundred tickets had been sold before the system had to be shut down, he said.
Officials with 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.
http://www.boston.com/sports/b..._after_computer_crash/
Originally posted by: OdiN
Originally posted by: Alistar7
Originally posted by: raystorm
I hear the weather may be an issue tonight. Weather.com has a 30% chance of rain. Anyone in cleveland here who can shed some light on the weather? If the game is called that means Beckett can pitch tomorrow and a potential game 7. That would be huge for the Red Sox. I'm sure Wedge is praying to the gods that the weather is perfect tonight.
Prayers can't save Boston now, Rockies/Tribe WS.
Go Rockies!!!
Fixed.
Originally posted by: Gibson486
Originally posted by: AStar617
Originally posted by: OdiN
Originally posted by: Mr Incognito
Sox in seven games.
Rox in four.
Originally posted by: AStar617
Butch Stearns of FOX25 just agreed with my prediction of a Sox victory in six games. :thumbsup:
FOX is freaking biased as hell.
I'm talking about our local Boston affiliate sportscaster, not the national commentators (who, by the way, have long been "anyone-but-Boston" fans).
ROFL....the only guy who actually has a little clue is Butch Stearns, and every once in a while I still question him. Everyone else is clueless, especially the VB guy in the morning. Marie Stephanos...don't even get me started. Every time I see her report the news, the only thoughts that pop into my head are:
1. I wonder how many people in upper management got a piece of her....
2. Man, I wish i was part of the Fox 25 upper management now.
Originally posted by: OdiN
I'm so freaking pissed.
I hate scalpers and I knew this shit would happen when they did online-only sales.
If they left the dugout stores and the main box office open, I would have tickets and the schmucks who stayed to get them online wouldn't.
Originally posted by: Citrix
Originally posted by: OdiN
I'm so freaking pissed.
I hate scalpers and I knew this shit would happen when they did online-only sales.
If they left the dugout stores and the main box office open, I would have tickets and the schmucks who stayed to get them online wouldn't.
yip me too.
need to find out how the redsox fans are doing on getting tickets at fenway.
QFMFT!!!Originally posted by: OdiN
Colorado is going to ROX YOUR SOX!
Originally posted by: Mr Incognito
We'll see how the Rockies handle their first post season loss. Hopefully we can take advantage of their youth like we did in Cleveland. I don't think our bats will go anemic against the Rockies second through fifth starters like the Phillies and D'Backs did. Who knows, I'm hoping it;s a good series.
Originally posted by: Mr Incognito
Regular season does not mean shit. Yankees hadn't lost to Cleveland in 6 games in the regular season, in the post season they end up losing three. The Rockies may have outscored us in the regular season but they won't win the endurance race that is post season baseball. Plus having 8 days off when you are riding that kind of streak hopefully will freeze their bats.
Originally posted by: OdiN
Originally posted by: Citrix
Originally posted by: OdiN
I'm so freaking pissed.
I hate scalpers and I knew this shit would happen when they did online-only sales.
If they left the dugout stores and the main box office open, I would have tickets and the schmucks who stayed to get them online wouldn't.
yip me too.
need to find out how the redsox fans are doing on getting tickets at fenway.
They did fine.
What they did, is register online - then they did an online lottery, emailed out codes and crap to people and did it that way. Worked great apparently.
That way, everyone that wants some registers, gets their fair chance at being picked, and placed in line somewhere good. If I didn't get any that way, at least it would have been fair.