Naw, it says you can play it in native Linux by changing a simple Mplayer setting. Should be no problem...I did it in 30 seconds, don't even need to have Wine or Firefox for Windows installed.
Sure you did. See #67.
Besides, who wants to have to tweak a bunch of crap just to watch baseball? If you want to use Linux, at least use it for something it's good at. I know that's limited, but multimedia is Linux at its worst. Did you notice how the author said Linux on the desktop may even be completely out of the picture in a few years? All it would take is a solid GUI for Solaris clients. You do know what platform runs MLB.COM don't you?
http://mlb.mlb.com/images/masthead/mlb_sun_logo.gif
