A ‘Little Batman’ Video And 10 Most Valuable Sports Teams

Our ‘little batman’ is off and running. Since Mason took his first steps just a few days ago, he’s been gaining confidence and walking more and more each day.

Carrie tells us he wants to walk everywhere now rather than crawl. We’ll be visiting Mason soon so we’re really looking forward to seeing our little man move around.

Forbes Magazine Top Ten Valued Sports Teams of 2014

	#1 Real Madrid FC Value: $3.44 billion Owner: club members Real Madrid has made it to the Champions League semifinals for four consecutive years and generates more revenue than any sports team in the world.
	#2 Barcelona FC Value: $3.2 billion Owner: club members In April, Barcelona's board voted to expand Camp Nou stadium to a capacity of about 105,000 from 99,000 as part of an $800 million renovation of its grounds.
	#3 Manchester United FC Value: $2.81 billion Owner: Glazer family Adidas will pay United $1.3 billion over 10 years starting in 2015 in the richest uniform deal in the history of sports.
	#4 New York Yankees Value: $2.5 billion Owner: Steinbrenner Family The enterprise value of YES, the regional sports network 20% owned by the Yankees, was $3.9 billion for 80% acquired by 21st Century Fox in November, 2013.
	#5 Dallas Cowboys Value: $2.3 billion Owner: Jerry Jones The Cowboys struck a 25-year stadium naming rights deal with AT&T last year for an estimated $500 million.
	#6 Los Angeles Dodgers Value: $2 billion Owner: Guggenheim Baseball MLB approved the Dodgers new $8.35 billion, 25-year television deal with Time Warner Cable in January.
	#7 Bayern Munich FC Value: $1.85 billion Owner: club members Bayern Munich captured the Champions League in 2013 and its club membership swelled by almost 30,000 over the past year to 223,985.
	#8 New England Patriots Value: $1.8 billion Owner: Robert Kraft The Patriots have sold out every home game since 1994 even though their ticket prices are second-highest in the league.
	#9 Washington Redskins Value: $1.7 billion Owner: Daniel Snyder The Redskins continue to thwart calls to change the team's name. Washington's new head coach, Jay Gruden, is the club's eighth since Dan Snyder bought the team in 1999.
	#10 New York Giants Value: $1.55 billion Owner: John Mara, Steven Tisch The Giants packed an average of 80,148 fans per game into MetLife Stadium last season, more than any team except the Cowboys.

As expensive as US sports franchises have become they still can’t match soccer’s glamorous big name teams of Europe. The 3 most valuable sports teams in the world play the non-American brand of football Americans call soccer. Spain’s Real Madrid, worth $3.44 billion, leads the way for the second straight year, a notch ahead of fellow Spanish soccer power, Barcelona, which is worth $3.2 billion. Manchester United rounds out the top three with a value of $2.81 billion.

Even though former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer paid $2 billion to buy the Los Angeles Clippers NBA basketball team, Forbes Magazine still considers that buy a bit of an outlier. Forbes valued the team at $575 million so no one will know for sure what an NBA team is really worth until there is a normal, legitimate sale unlike the circus that is still going on with former owner Donald Sterling and his family.

The unseasonably hot weather looks like its finally going to give us a break

The weather guessers are calling for a high temperature of 72F Friday and Monday it’s forecast to be 60F!  60F!!! Can’t wait for that. We’ve had enough of this 90F stuff for this year as we had another one just yesterday. With no a/c in our houses, we’re just not equipped to deal with this kind of heat. I suppose we could move out into the 5’er parked our driveway to sleep as we can crank up the a/c in it. It will definitely be getting a lot of use when the kids arrive home in early August.

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