OK so the Rockies won the NLCS and are now playing in the World Series..
What the Rockies then did to the fans, is a downright "sham".
I have been going to Rockies games at Coors field since the field first opened. I have supported the team even when they lost games and did not moan about them loosing any games. Now that they have been winning, all these other "supposed" fans have to get tickets?
You see, I'm not upset that the "jump on the band wagon" fans got the great tickets or these fans never went to the games when the Rockies were loosing, I am mad that the Rockies ball club and MLB on how they "dissed" all the local fans here in Colorado. The online ticketing was nothing more than a sham. This online ticketing system was used to give people other than local fans, the right to buy up tickets.
When the tickets went on sale at 10AM, I was online and could not get through, however at 930 AM a broker called "StubHub" had over 900 tickets to sell, and then had even more tickets to sell at 10AM. What went wrong with this? Why Didn't the Rockies ball club show preferential treatment to local fans? Why did they allow all these outside vendors the opportunity to get tickets over the local fans? Is it a money thing for the owner of the Rockies?
Since the local people in Colorado are the ones who were taxed up the "you know what" to put up Coors Field, why on earth would they ever be allowed to get tickets first? There is a thing called scruples, which I can only assume that the owner of the Rockies and MLB do not have.
There should have been nothing wrong with allowing people to stand in line to get tickets at Coors Field or Rockies outlets. That would have been the correct thing to do.
The way that the online ticketing system worked was just a laugh, and to think, that the spokesperson for the Rockies didn't have a clue as to what was going on and was even rude to the local news media! I stayed online 2 days in a row for 6 hours each and still didn't get a ticket. It wasn't just that I was online for 6 hours, it was that I had 4 computers logged in and still could not get one ticket, and I still refuse to pay $900 from a scalper for a rock pile ticket.
You might have heard the old saying "if it smells like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, and it looks like a duck, it probably is a duck". Well, this sounds/smells/and looks like a sham. And who are the low people on the totem pole now? The local Colorado Rockies fans.
Shame on you! Shame on me! To treat the local fans like the lowest denominator is just plain rude. I am rethinking about season tickets or even going to Coors field again. Thanks MLB and the Rockies ball club and all those scalpers out there, for souring my enjoyment of baseball.
Signed,
One Hurt Fan