Rockies World Series Tickets Fiasco

Mike stayed home from work this AM to try to score some Rockies World Series tickets... We recognized that it would be a long shot, but as you can see from the "official" announcement below it was a complete disaster. Needless to say there are a lot of grouchy Rockies fans today and we're still waiting to hear what "plan B" might involve. Prices are too steep in the secondary market so our only shot at seeing the Series from Coors Field will be if we are lucky enough to get them from the Rockies site.

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Rockies World Series Ticket Onsale

This morning, after more than 8.5 million hits on the Colorado Rockies website, Paciolan (Pack-ee-o-lan), Major League Baseball's ticket vendor, experienced a system wide outage that impacted all of its North American customers. As a result, the Colorado Rockies have suspended the sale of 2007 World Series tickets scheduled to be played at Coors Field.

"It's been an extremely frustrating morning for our fans and the entire Rockies' organization," said Keli McGregor, Rockies' team president. "We are working diligently with Major League Baseball and Paciolan to resolve the issues impacting online ticket sales for the 2007 World Series."

Although some ticket transactions (less than 500 seats) did take place this morning, virtually the entire allotment for all three games of the World Series scheduled for Coors Field remains intact. A plan for the sale of the available World Series tickets will be announced as soon as the details are available.

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