So I’ve made a big mistake.



On the heels of Blake Murphy’s wonderful deep dive into various Raptors trade proposals from our subscribers, we decided to open the floor to our Maple Leafs readers for a similar exercise. I blame Mike Cormack, our editor here, for all of this.



“BTW,” he said. “Here’s another idea for closer to the deadline you might have some fun with!”



Yes. Fun. Sure, let’s do it. The problem was that, within 24 hours, there were literally hundreds of responses, including many arguments among yourselves over the validity of said proposals. It got ugly in there. Quickly.



Some of you may want to find a safe house and lay low for a while.



“Man, there are some truly fucked up proposals in there,” one of our other editors texted me after taking a look.



Indeed.



Now, somehow, I have to sort through 10,000 words of insanity, make sense of it, and weigh in...