So yesterday, I posted a diary about how the Vancouver Canadians/Boise Hawks game was being broadcast on the web, for free, on streaming video. And then, of course, Murphy’s Law kicked in and I couldn’t get the thing to work.

Apparently plenty of other people were having the same issue, so Mr Technology himself, Beer-Hawker/Color Man extraordinaire Rob McGowan did a little research to help the rest of us out.

Here’s the skinny:

1) You need broadband or it won’t work.
2) If it ain’t working in Firefox (which is an awesome, free browser that leaves Microsoft Internet Explorer for dead), then try Microsoft Internet Explorer (okay, maybe Firefox has some catching up to do in certain areas, as this worked for me).
3) If that’s not helping, give the website in question permission to be seen in your browser preferences (you’ll need to allow it in your pop-up blockers too).
4) Lower your cookie security while watching.

If all that makes no sense to you, then use the eternal helpful hint that works for any problem at least 50% of the time… hit ‘restart’.

Now, the beautiful thing about all this is, Boise archives the games on their site, so you can watch both yesterday’s game AND the game from the night before by just clicking those dates on the video page of the website.

Tonight’s game starts at 6:15pm Pacific, and as far as I’m aware, Travis Buck will be playing, and the starting pitcher will be Joe Piekarz.

See your future Oakland players tonight at http://boisehawks.net/multimedia/audio/

PS: If you want to see Shawn Callahan’s solo dinger from Wednesday night, click here and go to 2 hours, 26 minutes in, and to see Jeff Baisley’s oppy field moonshot last night, click here and go to 0 hrs, 56 mins.