Yep that’s right…Although our own Denver ball club has been attempting to trademark “ROCKTOBER,” I’d like to submit “CRASHTOBER” as a much more appropriate pun on the the Rockies amazing post-season feat and front office ticket DE-feat…

As many of you may have heard, the Rockies club went 21-1 in the latter part of the 07 season, and sweeping everyone in the postseason–and all of this with a truly all-american, underdog, “home grown” club. That’s right, you won’t find any big money players on the team (save for the “Elwayesque” Helton), just REAL players playing for the game. What a huge feat on the normally dismal western div franchise.

However, that pun “ROCKTOBER” may really only describe the players efforts, not much can be said for the excecutive office, who pretty much screwed the pooch on ticket offerings. When tickets for the 07 Fall Classic went on sale Monday morning, the “ONLINE” only sales saw a reported 8.5 million hits in 2 hours, crashing the AMAZINGLY unprepeared servers. As local fans were already in a frenzie the week earlier about ONLY offering 18,000 tix and ONLY selling those tix on www.coloradorockies.com (instead of the normal avenues: stadium box office, dugout stores, etc..), Monday afternoon saw hundreds of locals conviening on 20th & Blake screaming for their chance to see THEIR team make it to the Serious for the first time ever.

Though the Rock’s front office screamed about a malicious attack (read: using bot hearders) on their servers, it was pretty much evident the following day that the Rockies were NOT prepared for this. At all. They fucked it all up. They reported a measley 500 tickets sold on Monday morning before the servers crashed. Tuesday worked a bit better, but hundreds of people that actually got in to the system were able to fully take advantage of it and purchase unlimited quantities (was suppsed to be 4 tix per person per game).

Now its Wednesday morning and we’re all trying it again. Seriously. WTF!

The bottom line is that I, like many locals, tried fiercly to purchase tix for any of the three homestands in Denver for three days with no luck. I’ve never seen such a schotty attempt. EVER. And the only chance I have to see the game now is by paying some dickhead scalper $500 to sit in the nosebleed (literally because its Denver) rockpile seats that normally cost $4 during the regular “rocks are in last place” season. Furthermore, on the heals of the “Hanna Montana” scandal a few weeks back, why the hell did the Rockies even attempt to do a web only sale? When are we going to take back our ticket industry? Why couldn’t Pearl Jam dismantle ticketmaster. Why can’t we contain scalping. It seems pretty easy….

2pm UPDATE:
Well, maybe here in CO, it may be soon…Like any good cause, the voters have flooded our Gov:

DENVER - In the wake of the Colorado Rockies World Series ticket problems, Gov. Bill Ritter (D-Colorado) and state lawmakers are studying whether to introduce legislation creating a statewide anti-scalping law.

Six states currently have anti-scalping laws, including Massachusetts where the Rockies are playing the Red Sox in Games 1 and 2 of the World Series.

At Fenway Park for example, tickets could be re-sold for $2 above face value plus service charges, but nowhere near twice the ticket price as currently being advertised online for Games 3-5 at Coors Field.

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