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Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday October 22, 2007 @05:57PM from the first-error-of-the-series-goes-to-the-owner dept.

vlakkies writes "The Colorado Rockies Major League Baseball team decided to only sell tickets for the World Series games at Coors Field online. As a result of overwhelming interest, the ticket vendor Paciolan experienced a system meltdown resulting in a suspension of all ticket sales."

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Meanwhile.... (Score:5, Funny)

by Otter ( 3800 ) writes: on Monday October 22, 2007 @06:04PM (#21078089) Journal

...a pair of helicopters has been hovering over Fenway for the last few hours, I'm guessing to monitor the real world analog of a "system meltdown".

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Reverse slashdot effect? (Score:5, Funny)

by dacarr ( 562277 ) writes: on Monday October 22, 2007 @06:05PM (#21078115) Homepage Journal

OK, the servers are supposed to melt down after the post on Slashdot.

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Re:YANKEES SUCK!!! YANKEES SUCK!!! YANKEES SUCK!!! (Score:3, Funny)

by walkie ( 794662 ) writes: on Monday October 22, 2007 @06:14PM (#21078199)

Finally, a troll I can agree with. Well said, sir.

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Re:The old story... (Score:5, Funny)

by AuMatar ( 183847 ) writes: on Monday October 22, 2007 @08:12PM (#21079423)

Like most of the rest of the country, they figured baseball was too boring to pay to see.

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