Baseball

I am a huge and longtime fan of the Detroit Tigers - my first game at beloved Tiger Stadium (now torn down, and replaced following the 1999 season by the newly built Comerica Park) was in either 1965 or 1966, with the youth baseball program in Addison. (I then played on the Indians in the Pony League, precursor to Little League.) So their stellar performance this season is filling me with great glee. As of this writing, they are just coming off three consecutive 3-game series sweeps of rivals in the Central Division ... first the Chicago White Sox, then the Cleveland Indians, and this past weekend the Minnesota Twins. Their current nine-game winning streak is their longest since 1984, which is their most recent World Championship season. And their magic number for clinching the Central Division title (which would be their first divisional title since 1987) is now down to eight.
Accordingly, I was quite excited when they put playoff tickets on sale this morning at 10 AM, online. But it proved to be a frustrating experience. After being shunted to a Virtual Waiting Room for over a half hour, and finally getting through that, for the next 45 minutes I kept repeatedly getting the message, "We're sorry, we were unable to process your request due to high transaction volumes. Please try to submit your request again." And then, finally, I was told they were all sold out. So, I am now consoling myself that what I am left with will be, on the whole, a less expensive and more comfortable experience.