Both the Mets and the Dodgers are in a mess financially. I haven't really followed either story in detail, but I gather that the Mets ownership is trying to sell a minority stake in the team while the Dodgers are sort of up for sale, but sort of not because of a divorce. Or something.
Anyways, it occurred to me that we could solve all of this with a Kickstarter project to take over the teams. Kickstarter is a site that allows people to pool money for cool projects (like buying a baseball team, perhaps?) sort of the way Kiva pools money for loans.
Teams owned by tons of fans who've each thrown in some money would be a pretty cool thing.