Did Chris Hansen's letter to Mayor Ed Murray and County Executive Dow Constantine, in which he offered to front all of the cash for the long-gestating basketball arena in SoDo, seem kind of calm and diplomatic, given all he's gone through over the last five years? Maybe it's because that was only his second draft. Now, thanks to a totally reliable source, we know what Hansen was really thinking.

In retrospect, we can understand why he went with the more measured approach ...