After chasing away a Canadian buyer, our Napoleonic Commish courted a local group of “investors” to purchase the Preds. Well, now it seems as though this group of local-yokels is not as well-heeled as first thought. Quotes from the group, and I’m paraphrasing here, include “we’ve made our fortunes and don’t seek to profit from this team.” The Tennessean is reporting that the group is asking the city to fork over $3 mil for past losses and to guarantee that 14,000 seats will have butts in them every season to keep the team in Nashville. (Balsillie must have been asking for mo’ money and a 14,005 seat guarantee; yeah, right.) The city didn’t seem to be willing to make up the seat deficit for the previous owner when it was 14,000 and Leipold didn’t ask for mo’ money to cover any of the $70 mil he lost on the team, so what up here? My issue: If you got so much dang dough that you don’t want to profit on a gazillion dollar investment, then why the hell are you asking for back pay from the taxpayer? Not just back pay but also a guarantee of future pay! Uh, let’s do the differential calculus here. Past owner: lost $70 mil and couldn’t attain avg. 14,000 attendance. New owners: get $50 mil discount on sales price from Commish Butthead, get $3 mil advance from City, get guarantee of 14,000 filled seats. Yep, Gary just done did Nashville.