Anyone else amused by the fact that after all the lockout-fanboys went through a couple of cycles of optimism-to-pessimism over the press releases, offer exchanges, and instant-refusals -- now they're all getting optimistic again because there hasn't been any new press?Up until now, offers and public negotiation was good. When the press stopped, everyone got depressed, until someone made a new offer, and then optimism spiked again.
Now we've gone through a couple of weeks where there's been nothing public happening. There are rumors of secret negotiations, and guess what? Everyone's optimistic again because this means that "they've decided to stop posturing" and "they are getting down to business". I'm sure once these negotiations collapse everyone will get depressed again.
It's just amusing that the media in general takes any excuse to be optimistic.
