Don't you see the advantages in being a pessimist? If those folks (I am not one of them) are wrong, they are stoked that the album is coming out sooner than they thought, and if they are right they are stoked because they can say "I told you so"...so either way they win. Pessimism is really the easiest and safest way to go.
Optimists like us take a chance and put ourselves at risk by having hopes and dreams which could be dashed to pieces. Therein lies the downfall of optimism. However, the positive side of optimism is that we don't have to spend our lives being miserable bastards.
That sure is a pessimistic way of looking at it.