Nats fans received information about buying World Series tickets on Saturday morning

[Upton]

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As if the crushing Game 5 loss to the Cardinals wasn’t painful enough, many Nats fans were greeted with an early-morning gut punch in their inbox Saturday morning.
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So what happened? While MLB clubs can decide when to start their pre-sales, the actual e-mail alerts are sent out on the teams’ behalf by MLB Advanced Media. The Saturday morning message was set up in advance and needed to be turned off in case of a Nats loss. It wasn’t.

The mistake had nothing to do with the Nats building that 6-0 lead, or with the widespread assumption that an NLCS trip was inevitable at that point.

“It was a stunningly stupid error on our part and we apologize to the Nationals and their great fans,” Bob Bowman, the president and CEO of MLB Advanced Media, said in a statement.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc-sports-bog/wp/2012/10/13/mlbs-stunningly-stupid-error-results-in-world-series-ticket-emails-to-nats-fans-after-loss/

Poor Nats fans...they've become like those who follow the Cubs. They can be sure no matter how bad things seem..they're bound to get worse..

[madinmaryland]

1. Considering that Nat's fans have only existed for 6 years, it at least is not as embarrassing as

taking 55 years to bring a championship to your city.

BTW, there was never such thing as an Expos fan!!

[KamaAina]

2. Were they available for $3.75?

That apparently was the going rate for NLDS Game 5 tickets for SF at Cincy, when cocky Reds fans (one of whom tweeted this) thought they had it wired in Game 4.

[Jack Rabbit]

3. If I were a Nats fan, that would be bit much for one day.

As for the Cubs fans . . . wait'll next year is a century-old refrain.