Saturday, May 2, 2009

So, where's the WVIAC baseball webcast?

Here it is, Saturday night, Day 3 of the 2009 WVIAC Baseball Tournament, and I'm enjoying my time here in Johnstown, PA.
The tournament has given us a little bit of everything. One of the favorites -- North Division champion Shepherd -- is 3-0 so far and will play in the championship game tomorrow afternoon.
Two division runners-up who were expected to contend -- Concord and Seton Hill -- have headed home after going 0-2.
The Cinderella team is Fairmont State. The Fighting Falcons came into the tournament with a 14-22 record, but shocked Seton Hill and Concord before falling to a 32-win Shepherd squad Saturday afternoon to drop into the loser's bracket.
Even Davis & Elkins, which finished second to Fairmont State in the "mediocre" Central Division, showed a lot of grit before being eliminated by powerhouse West Virginia State.
So there are many intriguing storylines.
Unfortunately, baseball fans around the conference (and around the country, via the internet) aren't hearing any of them right now.
Why?
If you're scoring at home, you'd put it down as "E ISP."
The internet service provider for Point Stadium has, figuratively, dropped the ball. The problem is that the computer we're using to stream audio for the broadcast was supposed to have been assigned what's called a "static IP." That is, an internet protocol address (every computer has one) that will not change, no matter what.
But somewhere along the line, the ISP didn't do that.
There have brief, sporadic outages in internet service here. Each time that's happened our streaming computer was assigned a new IP address. In essence, when the IP address changes, the ISP's network doesn't recognize our computer as a streaming computer anymore and won't carry the audio.
So with the IP/ISP snafu we're SOL.
However, experts are working on the problem and we hope to resume our coverage for Championship Sunday tomorrow.
Thank you for your patience.

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