Coloradorockies.com - Colorado Rockies Baseball Tickets Sells

In less than two hours hopeful Rockies fans will log on to try and get tickets to the World Series.

Tickets officially go on sale at 10 a.m. but season ticket holders had the upper hand Sunday with a four hour window to purchase tickets.

Many Rockies fan are hoping Monday's sales go better than Sunday's. Although the Rockies say Sunday's sale was a success, 9NEWS received various complaints and concerns from viewers who had difficulty accessing the site.

"Every time I tried to sign up an account, I got an error on my screen," said Rick Young. "My computer won't accept cookies."

Cookies identify users of a web page. Some computer security systems are not compatible with them. That's the problem Rockies fan Todd Lovrien encountered when trying to purchase tickets during Sunday's online sale.

"We tried every different way, and it kept throwing up this cookies thing," said Lovrien.

After removing all of the security settings that could block cookies, Lovrien tried again.

"I said 'Let me try one more time.' Then, all of a sudden, it came alive again."

That same tactic didn't work for Young. He was trying to create an account, so that he can purchase tickets when they go on sale to the general public Monday morning.

Rockies spokesperson Jay Alves says the organization didn't experience any problems with its system.

"To our knowledge, the only people that had the 'page cannot be displayed,' were IP addresses that were blocked due to suspicious/malicious activity to our website, during the last 24/48 hours," said Alves. "As an example, if several inquiries came from a single IP address, they were blocked."

Lovrien was eventually able to get through and purchase tickets. He says it took about ten minutes.

"I'll be stunned if I know anybody that gets tickets tomorrow," he said. "That's how fast they're going to go."

About 32,000 tickets were set aside for season ticket holders, players and sponsors. The rest, roughly 18,000, will be available Monday at 10 a.m. Tickets for Games 3, 4 and 5 at Coors Field will only be sold online at coloradorockies.com. Tickets can only be purchased on a game by game basis and ticket buys are limited to four tickets per game. For those who do not have Internet access, Denver public libraries will be opening early Monday morning.

"Tomorrow's public online sale will go very, very quickly," Alves said.

"There's only a certain amount of tickets available. There's a limited amount of seats and there's twice the amount of people trying to get those tickets," said computer consultant Patrick O'Fallon.

If you plan on being among the thousands who will log on to try and get tickets Monday, Fallon says there are some things you can do to increase your odds.

First, he says, make sure you use a computer with high-speed Internet.

Second, get familiar with the Colorado Rockies Web site before 10 a.m.

And finally, use multiple computers or have family and friends also log on.

World Series Schedule:
Game 1: Boston, Wednesday, 6 p.m.
Game 2: Boston, Thursday, 6 p.m.
Game 3: Denver, Saturday, 6 p.m.
Game 4: Denver, Sunday, 6 p.m.
Game 5*: Denver, Monday 10/29, Time TBD
Game 6*: Boston, Wed 10/31, Time TBD
Game 7* Boston, Thurs 11/1, Time TBD

*=if necessary