Count me among those probably responsible for bringing the sale of World Series tickets for the games at Colorado to a crashing halt. The club put the seats on sale at 10 am MT Monday, and under the weight of 8.5 million requests, the system stopped faster than a Yankees rally. According to a statement issued by the Rockies, “Paciolan, Major League Baseball’s ticket vendor, experienced a system wide outage that impacted all of its North American customers.” As a result, the team managed to sell just 500 of its seats, leaving most of the rest unsold. They’re working the problem and will have an announcement about how they intend to sell the rest of the tickets. How do you not prepare for a crush of traffic when you sell World Series tickets? Error. (I’d also like to take this moment to announce the “Take an LR Staffer Red Sox Fan to the World Series” program we have going…)
UPDATE: They’re gonna try again today at 2 pm ET.
October 22nd, 2007
Updating: With over a quarter-million people asked to evacuate as flames approach, San Diego’s CBS8.com has blown out its home page with critical resources and a blog. 10News.com and NBCSanDiego are streaming live coverage. SignonSanDiego.com, powered by the Union-Tribune, is webcasting wall-to-wall on its new online radio station (although it’s a little light on information and too cheery given the size of this story.) LATimes.com is updating a cool Google map with information on the location and size of the many fires. Most of the LA stations are also streaming live coverage: KNBC.com, CBS2.com, ABC7.com, MyFoxLA.com and KTLA.com. Adam Housley is blogging behind the scenes photos and video on FoxNews.com.
The LAFD is sending out real-time alerts via Twitter. SignOnSanDiego has a fire blog, but it keeps crashing (lesson learned here: make sure your host can handle a real breaking news blog). Your best audio coverage will come from KNX, live stream here. The San Diego blog Cat Dirt Sez is doing a great job blogging the fire.
Any other standouts worth mentioning? Please leave in comments and we’ll add…
A network TV soundman covering the Malibu fire.
October 22nd, 2007
