This bears repeating on a regular basis. Fans treat these interviews as the truth, probably because content aggregators (like MLBTR) also treat them as gospel, for self serving reasons. (Edit: Also because many people are always looking for reasons to be mad) But, as you point out, OF COURSE that's not the case. They are in the middle of a week-long negotiation. Why would they give their "opponents" any reason to have any sort of extra upper hand. They're smart. Of course they aren't going to do that.