2 big problems facing them: How do you sell the tickets in a way that will work (forget 'efficiency') and how do you do it to minimize potential lawsuits?
The website system will crash again; no doubts there, right? But what are the real other options now?
-I mentioned King Sooper's in a previous post but the second they say that all tickets will go out via King Sooper's there will be a mass-panic to drive wildly to the neighborhood King Sooper's whereby they better have security/police on duty because it will quickly turn into a mad-house. And if any of those people going to get tickets either cause an accident or get into an accident suddenly the Rockies are put in litigation's way. Bad plan.
-They can go back to the ticket lottery system except say it's 100% ticket lottery this time. This would cause probably more than half of the people who tried to access the ticket website here in the Metro area to drive madly to Coors Field. Again, insane driving/accidents would put the Rockies back in litigation's way; but on the bright side the Rockies could have more of a centralized police presence around where the tickets are sold.
-They emulate the Cleveland Indians' online lottery system whereby we would enter an online lottery with emails and they'd do the lottery that way. It seems to me that the main setback for the Rockies would be if they truly had no way of doing this (with either a lack of programmers who could do it or something like that); and it might go against some kind of current Rockies contract in place with Paciolan to sell tickets (although I think the Rockies office could probably easily argue that Paciolan definitely didn't uphold their end of the contract, hence a breach). If the Rockies did it right this could be the best plan.
Again, we'll see hopefully some time before the 10 o'clock newscast (like they said) but so far they've totally missed their stated press conference times.
Mendoza's 5280 (reasons to do the online lottery like the Indians').
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My recommendation is that they completely embrace their hypocrisy, do what they wanted to do all along, sell EVERY SINGLE TICKET to StubHub and let them deal with them, even if it means auctioning Rockpile seats to rich Boston fans for $800.
You just KNOW that's what MLB and the Rockies owners would love to do, right?
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