A Super/Amazing Proposal

Calling all Super/Amazing League participants! We have been discussing, as fantasy hockey GMs are wont to do, the relative states of our rosters, and have noticed a trend in our own behaviors. It seems that we both act like girls when it comes to our teams — we are irrationally attached to some players, irrationally loathe others, and hope above all else to avoid conflict with our GM peers. We will spontaneously decide we simply must dump some guy who’s done nothing to deserve our wrath, peruse the free agent options, sigh heavily at how pathetic they all are, and then gaze wistfully at our opponents’ rosters while thinking, “There’s no way that GM would give the guys up that I want.” Do you do that too, fellow GMs? If so, we have a suggestion: a Super/Amazing League White Elephant Sale. We can’t be the only ones who would be surprisingly willing to give up players other people might think were untouchable, can we? And we can’t be the only ones too timid to propose a trade, can we? Is it time for us to open a dialog about what players are on the table? Is it time for us to start shuffling our imaginary emotional baggage to someone else’s team, in exchange for some other GM’s pretend problems? What say you all?

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