Question about Windows Media plugin(s) for MBP

I like to listen to baseball games via Gameday Audio at MLB.com; however, it seems that I am unable to do so using my MacBook Pro because their service requires a Windows Media Player plugin for your web browser, and the WMP installer does not install one.
I tried installing Flip4Mac, but that's not universal yet, so I've come up empty. Any other suggestions as to how I can work around this problem and listen to the games?
Thanks in advance,
Crissy
MacBook Pro 2GHz Intel Core Duo   Mac OS X (10.4.6)   1 GB DDR2 SDRAM

I can't get Gameday Audio to play on my MacBook Pro either. I've intalled the Flip4Mac patch (via Rosetta); the Flash plugin; Windows Media Player; Firefox for Intel-based Macs. I've tried opening Safari in Rosetta. I've had some success playing free video and audio from Major League Baseball in both Safari and Firefox. But whenever I log into the subscription audio service, it fails. Firefox tells me, "Additional plugins are required" but, when I agree to install them, it informs me that "no suitable plugins were found." For its part, Safari says, "Some content on this page requires an Internet plug-in that Safari doesn’t support. The application “Windows Media Player” may be able to display this content. Would you like to try?" I do try, but WMP is never up to the task: the rainbow spinner goes round and round and Force Quit confirms that WMP is "not responding." I'm invariably reduced to pulling out my old computer to hear the game. I've talked to MLB about this, and suspect that their stock advice for Mac users does not yet take into account Intel-based Macs. Do I have to wait on Flip4Mac to produce a patch specifically for Intel-based Macs. Can anyone recommend anything else?
MacBook Pro   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

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