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05:30 PM Jun 16, 2006

Via Deadspin (and futbol lovers may want to keep coming back for its daily World Cup liveblogs):

An independent minor league baseball team, the Schaumberg Flyers, has announced plans to turn over managerial decisions to fans over the Internet for the second half of its current season.

If baseball -- and I can't say I'm at all a fan -- seems to struggle to find its bearings as entertainment spectacle in an era of short attention spans and rivals with xbox-friendly violence, its punctuated deliberation, limited strategic options and orientation around individual play actually make it kind of perfect for this sort of thing.

Will it work? Who knows? And if it's indeed maintained for such an extended period, what unforeseen outside conflicts might express themselves on the diamond?

The question as always for nonprofits: what's out there like this just waiting for you to think of? "There just HAVE to be new ways to capture -- and share -- the experience of your mission."

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