Here's the problem with your argument. You are projecting your beliefs without proof. you say Buxton was spending hours a day preparing to try to play. yet you admit that the team never said that. So maybe he was and maybe he wasn't. Unless you were in the room with him, you are just guessing. Same with the Pohlad argument. Unless you were in the room with him and the other leaders, you have no idea what they said or were working or had agreed to. You claim people are filling in the blanks because they don't have all the information. you are doing the same thing just in the other direction. Again, unless you are physically there in the room with these people all the time, you are just guessing as to what's really going on.