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Category Archives: Schadenfreude

Schadenfreude in Texas

3 September, 2007

Kudos to the Dallas Stars’ marketing department for this clever billboard-based dig at the NBA’s referee scandal: Unsurprisingly, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban loved the billboard according to the Dallas Morning News: “I think it’s hysterical,” Cuban told the newspaper. “Good for them. It’s a fun ad.”† ESPN has chimed in with other suggested NHL [...]

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Only God Can Save Baseball in Baltimore

23 August, 2007

History — of the lurid, malicious, nauseating, revolting, and unfathomable kind — was made at Camden Yards Wednesday afternoon. According to ESPN, Texas’ 30 runs, 27-run victory represent the great smackdown in baseball since 1897. That’s the nineteenth century — two centuries ago. To put the Rangers’ 30 runs in a single game in perspective, [...]

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Schadenfreude, Upstate New York Style

19 May, 2007
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A Picture (of Prominent Pens Golfing) Is Worth a Thousand Cans of Iron City

20 April, 2007
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Spring's Sweetest Scent: Rotting Penguin Carcass

19 April, 2007

The Thursday post-work agenda is slobber-inducing: mosy on over to the Capitol Hill home of close friends and take in Game 5 on their straight-out-of-the-delivery-box-on-Wednesday, 46-inch hi-def television. I’m distinctly technology challenged, but I believe it boasts something like a million pixels. Tonight’s game will literally be its first program viewed. What a baptism! Given [...]

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***Breaking News*** — Pens Make No Progress with Pittsburgh Pols

5 March, 2007

Pittsburgh CBS television affiliate KDKA this afternoon is reporting that Penguins’ owner Mario Lemieux is set to inform NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman that months’-long discussions between the team and city officials have produced little toward an agreement on a new arena, and that his ownership group has no recourse but to look elsewhere. In a [...]

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"The Ghost" to Crosby: Please Leave

26 January, 2007

One of our favourite words at OFB is Schadenfreude: “enjoyment obtained from the troubles of others.” Our latest enjoyment comes from Dallas, where everything is bigger, but not Sidney Crosby. According to Martin Leclerc at Le Journal de Montreal, Crosby attended a private party booked for the All-Star game at a Dallas nightclub called Ghost [...]

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Update: Project Pennsylvania Moving Vans

23 January, 2007

No fewer than three fresh items of delicious print media to acknowledge for Schadenfreude-minded Caps’ fans as it relates to Mullet Insolvency and Homelessness. The first, which runs in this morning’s Pittsburgh Tribune Review, is headlined “Lemieux ‘very disappointed’ over arena talks.” Some salient excerpts: “Penguins co-owner Ronald Burkle met for almost two hours [last] [...]

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"That's the most embarrasing thing I've seen on the National Hockey League ice"

5 January, 2007

That was the quote from colour commentator Ray Ferraro in the Stars / Oilers game last night. I am so glad I stayed up to watch it. The Stars were up by one. The Oilers pulled the netminder. Patrik Stefan can put the Stars up by 2 with 11 seconds left on a shot that [...]

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On Mullets and Moving Vans

22 December, 2006

This past Wednesday, the city of Pittsburgh stunned Pennsylvanians generally and the hockey fans there most particularly, and most especially NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, when the mulleted town fathers voted to award a $50 million slots license to Majestic Star Casino. Majestic’s was considered a super long-shot bid to win the license. Worse for Pittsburgh’s [...]

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