Maybe my Yankees Can Use Some Wisdom of the Crowds

Plagued by bad signings of over-the-hill players and pitchers and mediocre playoff performance, I have been thinking that my beloved Yankees could use some help in the front office. Ever since I was a kid memorizing the stats page in the NY Times (when people still needed a newspaper), I thought I knew what was best for the Yankees. But they had Gene Michael and now Brian Cashman. Nobody was listening to me.

For the last year, a little Israeli company called Web2Sport has put me and others like me in charge of a soccer team. This team , Kiryat Shalom, is run completely by its 12,000 fans. This includes player selection, starting teams and substitutions. Don't believe it can work? This perennial last place team has been as high as 3rd in their divisional standings. Kiryat Shalom has been covered in many blogs and news outlets before. What is new you ask? This very well-done video below (tip of the hat to founder Moshiko Hogeg) is from a recent game after investor Alon Carmel gave a motivational speech. It does a good job of describing and then showing through highlights the way web2sport works. And, after the speech the team went out and....watch the video and you will see.