Fantasy sports meets ... sports
Members of a fan website have ponied up £700,000 to buy the English minor league soccer team Ebbsfleet United. Fan takeovers aren't unheard of in England; what's new here is that fan message board chatter will now supposedly converted into actual coaching decisions. "Every MyFootballClub member will have an equal say in team selection, player transfers and the running of the club," promises the site. Reports the BBC:
After the takeover goes through the current board will stay in place, as will manager Liam Daish, although his title will change to head coach.
Daish insisted that he was happy for fans to have an input on team matters.
"Picking 11 players and formations isn't a precise science and luck often plays its part," stated the Ebbsfleet boss.
My initial thought was that this will be a totally disastrous way to run an organization. But then I started asking myself why. Is it because I think masses of fans are going to more impulsive and less rational than conventional sports club owners? You know, people like George Steinbrenner?
So maybe it's not such a bad idea.
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I picked up Time to read your article on sub prime stuff. It was good. I also saw Romesh Ponnuru's article on healthcare.
His thesis is that our healthcare is expensive because it is free, and to fix it we have to make people have more skin in the game.
How am I supposed to take your magazine seriously when silliness like that gets printed? Every other industrialized nation provides cheaper care than we do, and their systems are all essentially free like ours. It seems pretty clear that free-ness isn't the main problem with our system.
I mean, how can the editor wave that column into print without saying, "hey, don't you think you are missing an obvious counter point here?"
Germans editors wouldn't let that happen, I'll tell you that at least!
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