Of course you don't buy that "idea" because Henry is not on tape as having stated the policy or decision and Dombrowski himself, live, and on tape, said that he had been given NO SUCH INSTRUCTIONS.
That story line is fabrication that hand wringers and doomsayers espouse.
Again, one of the advantages of living in or proximal to Boston is that one call see and hear these policy decisions being said by the principals involved.
I am for more likely to take it at face value when the horses ass says it right into the camera ( on the Sox own network, no less ) than to swallow the tale of woe spewed by some fans on the web.