Rockies online World Series ticket sales system crashes

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.