Chaos said:
I dont believe everything the media tells me...but go ahead and keep telling yourself that. For the 3rd time(try not to avoid it like a little kid this time): do you stand by your "August at the earliest or more likely January" statement still? Answer the question.
Gotta go with you on this one about the media.
This "two weeks" thing has taken on a life of its own for a couple reasons; 1) the media has had pretty much zero in the way of statements and/or reports from those involved in the negotiations in the last month or so and, 2) obsessive (and bored) fans like most of us here have a tendency to throw one little comment absurdly out of proportion and to beat that horse long after it's been dead and buried.
If the media had anything even remotely substantial, even a vague comment on which to speculate and write a juicy article, they would have. Even a small, cryptic piece of info (whether true or not) is enough for them. As we've seen many times in the past, one little tidbit is enough for them to speculate about a timetable. And the next little tidbit they report on usually changes the timetable. And so on, and so forth. Instead, the only thing we've heard in the last month, month and a half is the deal should be done in "two weeks".
We know the league and the PA have been extremely tight-lipped in recent weeks, to the point of saying nothing. And I get the hefty suspicion that these writers have been getting absolutely nothing from their sources as well. They have jack to report, so they put a vague "two weeks" descriptor on it, knowing that the two sides are indeed working towards a resolution. I could be wrong, maybe the media-types did get it from their sources that it would be two weeks. But even that is pretty speculative, considering that the two sides are drafting the agreement as they go along. Damn near impossible to give a timetable when a long and complex legal document is being written as they progress (one minor disagreement could result in a couple days of delay, and that's just one of many possible delays given this current situation).
Since us fans are starved for any news and we finally see some light at the end of the tunnel, we jump on every comment like a pack of crazed dogs. Everything is so over-analyzed and repeated ad nauseam and thrown so far out of whack, I can see how people can lose perspective around here. It's freaking chaos, even I believed this "two weeks" thing for a bit. But it didn't take too much time to see that it was bunk and means nothing. Hopefully the same thing occurs over the rest of this board.
