I wouldn't call it wishful thinking on my part, necessarily, because I really don't care WHO wins the GM in Mens. Just a weird vibe I'm getting. Kind of like the one I got at the 04 Worlds a couple of days before the Ladies competition started that told me Michelle was going to be 3rd in her qualifying group. Which she was. Besides, if Plushenko has a rough outing, and a few others have great outings, you can only inflate and deflate scores so much to make him come out ahead anyway before the squawking begins.