Happy Hour: Christmas Tree, Take Two

December 11, 2009 5:50 PM 2 comments
  • Bless their hearts! Two kind folks in Fairview stepped up to the plate and donated a new 25-foot Christmas tree to replace the sad broken one downtown. It’s about 15 feet shorter than the last one, but it’s way cuter. And maybe they somehow magically grew the trunk out of steel. Thanks for saving Christmas, David and Sandra Petersen! [Tennessean]
  • H1N1 vaccines will be available at Hickory Hollow Mall and the Cool Springs Galleria this weekend so you can keep your holidays Swine Flu-free. [WSMV]
  • It wouldn’t be a proper hockey season without someone bringing up the possibility that the Preds might leave us for another city. Please don’t go! [Tennessean]
  • As the weather gets colder, the Nashville Rescue Mission is sending out the Cold Patrol, or some workers in vans who drive around the city looking for homeless folks who need a warm place to sleep. [WTVF]
  • Regarding the question of whether or not he’ll start on Sunday, VY™ says, “Heck yeah, you know me better than that. I’ll be out there.” That’s the spirit. [Tennessean]

Photo by Titanfan.

  • http://nicholsonrecords.com/paul Paul Nicholson

    Just to set the record straight, that article in the Tennessean about the Preds is pretty much bunk. There's apparently a very confused member of the Sports Council “who wants to know if” and the Tennessean gladly quoted them and added some outright fiction.

    The false statement is “because a provision of their lease agreement could give them the ability to leave Nashville next year”.

    Not true. The current lease agreement would only allow them to move if BOTH
    1) The Predators average under 14,000 in paid attendance for TWO years in a row
    AND
    2) The Predators lose a cumulative $20million over the time when the lease was put in place (2007).

    How are they doing against those points:
    1) They averaged over 14,000 in paid attendance last year – so right there that would put the soonest “move out” date at 2011
    2) They made a small profit in 2007 (didn't publish what that was) and took a loss of “about $1million” last season.

    So a nightmare scenario would put the soonest move out date as 2011 (avg less than 14k this year and next and somehow manage to lose $19million in 2 years) and would not allow them to move in 2010 as stated in the article.

    Lots of us have pointed this out to the Tennessean, but they have yet to post a retraction of the statement. None of us are surprised by the fact.

  • http://loudestnoise.com David Cintron

    Ya, what Paul said.