Sold Out

We gave it our best shot, but we were unable to obtain any tickets to this year's World Series between our beloved Boston Red Sox and our local Colorado Rockies. After Monday's online ticket fiasco, the Rockies organization put tickets on sale again at noon on Tuesday, and they sold out within 2 1/2 hours. Some of those tickets are already available on StubHub.com for as much as $7,500. We've used ticket brokers in the past to go to football games, but the market prices for these tickets are well out of our range.

Not for a minute do we buy the Rockies' explanation that Monday's problems were caused by a "malicious attack" on Paciolan's servers. While we're certain that a number scalpers were using illicit software in order to purchase tickets, the bottom line is that the Rockies were simply unprepared to handle the demand. The suddenness with which the Rockies forced their way into the postseason also added to the organization's unpreparedness. The Red Sox had distributed their tickets without incident, and even the Cleveland Indians concluded a ticket lottery a couple of weeks ago. Other organizations who have actually been to a World Series before know how to handle this scenario.

Now we have to make a decision as to where to watch the games on TV. We could simply relax at home and watch them, but we are considering going to the Blake Street Tavern so we can be in the company of other Red Sox fans. There is a lot of activity going on in "Go Red Sox," a Denver-based Red Sox Yahoo! group that we belong to, so it's possible that the group might organize some get-togethers.