Red Sox-Rockies: Here We Come!

Living here in Colorado, the State has gone "nuts" over the Colorado Rockies. By the way they have been playing, there is good reason for all the excitement. It has been an amazing run for the Rockies (won 21 out of 22 games before last night's beating).

On Monday, I spent about 2 hours on-line trying to order World Series tickets. The Rockies decided to only do "on-line" sales. The problem was that around 8 million other people were also trying to buy some of the limited 60,000 total tickets available for the 3 games in Denver. The webserver crashed and it is believed that a "hacker" had something to do with it.

On Tuesday, the Rockies decided to try again to sale their World Series tickets. I like many many others I tried to gain access...just for the chance to purchase World Series tickets. After a long 1 1/2 hours, I miraculously connected. When I first connected, I was in shock and praying for me not to get "knocked off". I only had 5 minutes to decide on where I wanted seats, register my personal information, input my credit card data, and make the selection. After the long wait, I grew increasingly nervous with each click that was proceeded by a LONG pause. I thought I was going to lose connection.

I envisioned me missing the "once in a lifetime" opportunity to take my son to see our favorite team in a World Series Game. As the clock ran down, I finally clicked purchase and had to wait through a final LONG pause. Once the screen reappeared, I realized I had successfully bought 2 tickets for the World Series Game 5. I would have never imagined that when Wes and I wore our Red Sox hats to see a Rockies-Giants game on Labor Day that the next time we enter Coors Field we'll be wearing those same hats and rooting for our Sox in the World Series Game 5.

I've already warned Wes that we will be in "ENEMY" territory. His response...."SO!".

Now that I have tickets and the chance to attend a World Series game with my eldest son, I'm just praying that the Series is not a sweep. If it is, then the tickets (which would be refunded) will be just a mere example of what "could have been".

So, I say:

"Go Sox...beat the Rox, but Rox please WIN 1!