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Wow Sox

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

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I am gobsmacked the Red Sox got the sweep. Bless ‘em.

I’m sure people who care will spend days debating why the Rockies didn’t manage to snatch as much as a game in the World Series (my fave is still the 8 day layoff and the snow angels). I feel bad for the Rockies - after all, I’ve actually been to Coors Field whereas I never ventured into Fenway while I lived in Boston - but I can’t help but root for (and be psyched for) the BoSox.

Mike “Eyebrows of Love” Lowell is my hero. (I even called him for MVP when he homered tonight. Yay me and my total lack of baseball knowledge!)

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Retroactive Track oâ€™ the Post: Sweet Caroline from Neil Diamond’s 12 Greatest Hits, because Red Sox Nation is crazy about that song.

No Tix for Rox & Sox

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Jake

6 months, 3 weeks ago

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Totally awesome.

Say your team is in the World Series for the first time ever. Say the World effin’ Series is coming to your town for the first time ever. What the one thing you can’t do?

That’s right, fuck it up.

And that is just what happened, boys & girls. I suppose you could say the Rockies were trying to fight the power by not going with TicketMaster to distribute their tickets.

Locally, the Rockies are the only pro team that isn’t a Ticketmaster client. It picked Paciolan in 1998, primarily because the team wanted control over its own inventory, said Kevin Fenton, the team’s senior director of ticket operations.

The Rockies’ previous provider, Destinet, went bankrupt and left the Rockies in the dark for six months.

(Or maybe that’s a history of bad decision-making?)

I suppose you could say they were trying to make the ticket sale more “fair” by doing online sales only. (Or at least they did.)

All I can say is that the end result of Paciolan’s entire evenue.net service crashing utterly under the strain of 8.5 million hits in 90 minutes is nothing if not completely obvious.

You see, online-only sales are “fair” to everyone, so anyone who saw that it snowed in Denver yesterday is thinking “Sweet! World Series + ski trip!!” and trying to log on to get some seats. If you are a team like the Rockies, who have been in the dumps for so long nobody knows WTF is happening right now, you need to sell some season tickets with this miracle run. You NEED to get some local fans in those seats for a World Series game. Next in line, you should get some Red Sox fans on board, because they are everywhere and love them some baseball. After that comes the tourists.

Screw being fair! You need to take care of that guy (I personally know a few) that comes to as many Rockies games as he can and always has a hell of a time. The people that showed up at Coors Field today, with a vague threat of riot int he air? Those are your people. Take care of your people and they might forget that the team is winning in spite of a front office that could seemingly care less.

Update: As of about 7pm Mountain, they still have no answer. Also this here site comes up #1 for “fuck Paciolan“. How cool is that? Granted, it’s pure coincidence, since I never typed that phrase until now, but whatever. If the shoe fits…
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Track oâ€™ the post: All The Old Showstoppers from The New Pornographers‘ latest, Challengers for this lyric:

When we hit the numbers we broke
Broken and changed ‘em
Changed as we spoke

Unbelievable

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Jake

7 months ago

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Holy crap! Go Rockies!

Meanwhile the BoSox are playing some silly see-saw game in their series, trying their level best to lose to the Indians.

I’m starting to think I’d prefer it that way now. At least then it would be clear to me which team to root for.

I am no longer waiting for the wheels to come off for this Rockies team. They are some sort of juggernaut of destiny right now. It’s crazy.

Stuff and Junk

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Jake

7 months, 2 weeks ago

in Colorado Living, Getting Fit, Homebody, Hooliganimals, Motorcycles and Yankees Suck

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Firstly, it’s worth noting that The Mother-in-Law has a new dog. Molly is a blue heeler mix of some sort. She’s really sweet, though a bit crazy and fairly untrained. We’re hopeful, though, since Australian Cattle Dogs are in the top ten for dog breed intelligence.

Next on the docket are the mighty Rockies. Now, I’m not a baseball fan. I root for the Red Sox on principal alone. But c’mon! Who doesn’t love a “hometown underdog does good” story? Best of all, I know one Phillies fan who is an extremely sore loser. This could be fun.

In general, Autumn is upon us. The transition seasons always get me fired up in one way or another.

The Wife and I are taking a lot of long walks with Mingus to try to shed some pounds and keep the dog happy.

I’ve barely been on the Bonneville this year, but it’s OK. My favorite riding time is now, so hopefully I’ll get in the saddle at least a few times. I wish I was like these guys.

I’m itching to start a home project or a woodworking project (or both) soon. Updates when I do.

Trip Report and Other Junk

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Jake

7 months, 2 weeks ago

in Folx, Food and Cookery, Jake's Life, Love, Life, and Cam Neely, Obsessions, Sports, Televisio and Yankees Suck

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Well, really there’s not much to report.

The drive to Vegas went quickly and easily. We literally did nothing in Vegas — In fact, we we most excited by the fact that the Luxor has two Starbucks. Party animals we are not.

The second leg of the drive into Los Feliz also went without a hitch. From then on it was just the usual sort of “hang out with Chris, Kate, and Chowda” sort of scene. Highlights as I remember them:

Best of all, we got lots of quality time with Scot & Matt. We love those kids. You might recognize Scot. Thanks to both him and Kate, I have a Bacon Number of 3!
Casa Bianca has the best sausage pizza I have ever consumed. I am curious as to whether it’s the sausage or the pizza. I cheese pie trial needs to happen someday.
The Museum of Jurassic Technology is supremely weird. A must see if you’re in LA (and like weirdness).
Friday poker: In spite of playing like an idiot (and in doing so, pissing Scot off a bit when I rivered and ace to beat his pocket kings), I managed to finish in second place. I had a chance to do better than that, but Matt’s crazy enough that I shouldn’t have tried to scare him out of a pot by going all-in with ace-high.
Saturday was Chris’ birthday cookout/party in which Chris ended up doing all the cooking… *shrug* Staggering amounts of Guinness were consumed, and I got to see some of my favorite people.
The Wife and I hiked up to Griffith Observatory a couple times. It’s a steep little hill, let me tell you!
Lots of dining out, but not as disastrous as usual. Though, we totally had to hit Tito’s Tacos.

The drive back was fairly ordinary except for a crazy huge moon we saw rising over the Utah desert.

Today, when I came back into work, I found a strange Japanese swan phallus thingy on my desk. Thanks to Miracle Ed, I now get the reference, but nobody here has owned up to actually putting it on my desk…

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