More Rockies Fever

Thanks to Dave for the photo. Rumors that the snowman has used HGH appear to be false, but an investigation will continue.

World Series ticket experience

OK, venting time. Did anyone have a good experience trying to get World Series tickets? The system did NOT work well. For those of you smart enough not to try, you were sent to a screen that told you to wait 120 seconds and then it would automatically refresh and try to lock into ticket sales. If you manually refreshed earlier, you were told you'd lose your place in line, whatever that meant. However, most of the time, you'd sit there for 119 seconds and then it would freeze at the refresh and you'd have to start over anyway. In case you're wondering, I have dual monitors and was able to continue working the entire time.

The system still froze a bunch of times and this is the experience of several friends who were trying to get through. The Rockies may have sold all their tickets so they're trying hard to do PR damage control and pretend that all is great, but there are far more angry Colorado-based fans like myself because of this miserable experience. Get a company that can handle this kind of deal, you know?

Go Rockies!

Herald photo by Bill Howard

Father Owen McHugh was sporting his Rockies cap at the Bishop's Luncheon for Retired Priests this afternoon at Giuseppe's Restaraunt. I forgot to ask him to say a prayer that the Rockies' server doesn't crash when World Series tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Monday.

This also leads to our latest giveaway. I have four copies left of The Denver Post's celebration edition (four pages) that was dropped off on street corners an hour after the Rockies clinched Monday night. It's pretty cool. E-mail me at editor@coloradocatholicherald.com if you'd like one for your scrapbook.

[UPDATE 10-22-07] Wouldn't you know it, the server crashed. Let me know if anyone gets through the second time.