Comments on: ROCKIES what the @#%$

By: David Thuis

David Thuis — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:09:00 +0000

Silly Me... Plenty of tickets still available... A quick search on line and I found THOUSANDS of tickets for sale... I've listed them below to save you time and effort.

Game 3 2002 Tickets Upper Reserved Outfield 325 $11,149
game 4 1876 Tickets
Game 5 2232 Tickets $19,500 mezzanine

Sports Tickets.com
Game 3 320 listings with multiple tickets each - $9.00 parking pass going for a resonable $75.00
Game 4 259 listings cheapest ticket $600- what a bargain
Game 5 276 listings what an amazing # of "e-tickets" purchased "online" here at this site... hmm

buybettertickets.com

No to easily count the offers but tons available for all games. $9.00 packing pass listed as a "Great Price" at $128

By: Northglenn Grandpa

Northglenn Grandpa — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:04:00 +0000

Well, the system must have worked. All the ticket scalpers have plenty of tickets at outrageous prices this morning. Somebody got them. I was using a computer hooked up to the internet via a T1 connection and had the same luck you did. Of the 2 dozen or so people that I know of that were trying to get in, not one of them did. I did hear of one guy trying from home who got in late in the afternoon and he was able to purchase 4 tickets to one game in the rockpile. I haven't seen the tickets so I don't know if it is true or not.

Bottom line, thanks to the Rockies, I saved a LOT of money yesterday. My living room and my small screen TV will be just fine -- and the beer will be a lot cheaper too.

Go ROCKIES.

By: David Thuis

David Thuis — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:34:00 +0000

Ironically the Rockies were saying yesterday that they wanted to do a lottery, but that it was illegal to do so in the state of Colorado; that is why they went with this system. Now the Colorado Legal folks are coming out and stating the Rockies never even asked them if they could do a lottery, and that they could have done one legally as long as no one was charged to participate in it… More egg on the faces of the Rockies administrative staff.

By: Vic Vela

Vic Vela — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:33:00 +0000

The Rockies should have had a lottery...Only fair way to do it with a heck of a lot less headaches involved. That way, you would have known if you could have bought tix and exactly when you could have bought tix.

That's essentially what the Red Sox did.

The leftovers should have been sold at the box office.

Also, if you're going to do it exclusively online, you should have limited the first day to Colorado residents--accept only those credit cards with a CO address. Now, we just opened the door right up to Red Sox nation. It's supposed to be home field advantage. The way the Rox did it, any one in the country had just as good of a shot as guys who live down the street from Coors Field. Not cool from a public relations standpoint.