Maybe Next Year
The Dodgers have manged to kill any hopes the Cubs mat have had of ending that hundred year-old curse. There’s always next year.
The Chicago Cubs: The Magic Number is One
Stepping away from politics for a few minutes, I noticed that the Chicago Cubs are on their way to clinching the National League Central title. They are currently in a three-game series with the St. Louis Cardinals at Wrigley Field. The Cubs are just one win away to start on the journey to the Worlds Series. I am not some avid sports fan, but I have been keeping my eye on their progress. For the team to be this far is pretty exciting.
What a year this could turn out to be for Chicago. Their prodigal son, Barack Obama winning the Presidency of the United States and the Chicago Cubs winning their first World Series in 100 years. It gives me goosebumps just thinking about it.
I Need a Miracle
World Series tickets for Game 3 and Game 4 at Coors Field are sold out. There are still limited tickets available for Game 5.
At least that gives me something new to look at on the refresh page. It also answers the question of whether or not the Rockies web site was going to let us know when tickets were sold out.
The suffering is almost over. Thank God!
Who Has My Ticket? (Holds finger up in air)
The Rockies completely struck out yesterday with their attempt to sell World Series tickets. They are blaming their ineptitude on a ‘malicious’ attack:
The Rockies were forced to stop the online-only sale of tickets after about two hours Monday after 8.5 million hits overwhelmed the servers set up to take the orders. The Rockies later said they were victims of an attack, but neither the team nor the company hired to run the sale – Paciolan Incorporated – have offered any specifics of exactly what happened.
Given the volume of traffic the Rockies reported and the fact that the attack shut down sales, computer security expert Dave Marcus said it could have been a denial of service attack – in which computers overwhelm Web servers with repeated but false requests to connect.
Whatever.
They resumed ticket sales today at noon. I guess I should say that the refresh pages came back up at noon. Whether they are actually selling tickets has yet to be seen. The only difference I see is that the countdown clock now starts at 120 seconds instead of 60. Other than that it’s pretty much deja’vu.
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Take Me Out to the Ballgame
The Colorado Rockies have made it to the “Big Show” – the World Series baby!!!!
Tickets supposedly are going on sale today; online only. We have been sitting here refreshing four computers since 10:00 this morning. Apparently the Rockies’ servers shit the bed sometime around 1:00. Now we wait. And refresh.
Please wait for the server to become available. The site is experiencing heavy loads at this time.
To improve your ticket-buying experience and to make it as pleasant as possible, this site permits entry to a limited number of patrons at a time.
This page will refresh when the countdown timer below reaches zero. When this happens, the system will automatically try to access the site again.
If this page refreshes too many times, you may want to try again later. Thank you for your patience.
Countdown: 59
The day is far from over and with only several hundred tickets sold thus far, it could get interesting. The Denverites have already taken to the streets. There could be rioting.
Read this update:
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2010 F1 Schedule
Date Location Mar. 14 
Sakhir - Bahrain Mar. 28 
Melbourne - Australia Apr. 04 
Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia Apr. 18 
Shanghai - China May 09 
Barcelona - Spain May 16 
Monaco May 30 
Istanbul - Turkey Jun. 13 
Montreal - Canada Jun. 27 Valencia - Spain Jul. 11 
Silverstone - Great Britain Jul. 25 
Hockenheim - Germany Aug. 01 
Budapest - Hungary Aug. 29 
Spa-Francorchamps - Belgium Sep. 12 
Monza - Italy Sep. 26 
Singapore Oct. 10 
Suzuka - Japan Oct. 24 
South Korea Nov. 07 
Sao Paulo - Brazil Nov. 14 
Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates -
