Prediction: here's the Denver Post headline on October 23: ROCKIES FANS SHUT OUT

The story will have to do with how hundreds of ticketbrokers from across the country each used hundreds of computer farms to virtually buy 99% of the available World Series tickets in 45 seconds. In the article there will likely be a Rockies rep who says something dumb like "We had software implemented which deterred a great majority of ticketbrokers but it appears as though a few got through" or "We will do our best to find out who circumvented our ticketbroker filtering technology and decide what to do from there", or they'll try to cover their asses by saying "We greatly underestimated the effects of ticketbrokers and greatly overestimated our ticketbroker filtering technology, but that's to be expected due to this being our first World Series ticket sale."
All BS statements and nothing Rockies management or MLB can do (or would like to do) because all those tickets will immediately be on StubHub earning MLB a cut on each ticket sold.

In the highly unlikely event that the press asked for my statement I'd slam down the idiots claiming that an all-outdoor-lottery system would have just equally led to hundreds of hired homeless standing in lines for the nationwide ticketbroker companies. I'd say that the ticketbrokers WANTED it online because they can put millions of ticket-buyers 'in line' that way; whereas the lottery system would have limited ticketbrokers to the number of people who would physically want to be in line representing the ticketbrokers (ie in the Metro area there are 9000 homeless people in the Metro area).
Here, I'll put it this way: if these ticketbrokers wanted the same ticket-buying success on the line lottery as they'd have on the internet, they would have had to payoff at least 4000 homeless people to buy World Series tickets, and that's assuming that those are 4000 of the luckiest homeless people ever in that they would each have needed to win the line lottery to even buy the tickets.
And now I'll reframe it this way: making all the available Rockies World Series tickets available only online is the line lottery equivalent of allowing ticketbrokers to have 10 million hired ticket-buyers waiting in line and each of the hired ticket-buyers is amazingly equipped to stand in line and amazingly 'lucky' with the line lottery.
Good job Rockies management and good job MLB.

Mendoza's 5280 (reasons to worry about not getting a World Series ticket at face-value)