Spoiler alert: Schadenfreude!

In a word…it kind of sums up where the now, once again, home team prowling! Tigers find themselves... as being not only in a position to, as playing "the spoilers" - - as in spoiling the fun of some pennant bound teams by tripping them...

"I said I'm sorry...NOT!" That we spoiled your plans...rotten! It's only fair that after we were promised, as in preseason forecasts, a trip to wherever the playoffs are located, which will anywhere but our hometown, that we now have, as in one of the oldest spoiler spoiled sport sayings..."To the loser goes the...soiled rags😕" Given that all is left is the scraps and what's known, curiously, in the national pastime, as "Batting clean-up" But if we're really going to come clean here, the primary emotion, that keeps us in motion, after so many late season teasing, as seeing our last minute chances evaporate, as in our team finding a way to snatch, grab, then dash away from the jaws of victory😢 It's not that we, after seeing so many key players traded away, witnessing the front office wave the white flag (soiled rag to us), had any false expectations. It's about that time we started looking around for someone to share in our misery. Or, taking this spoiler sport up a notch - - "Deriving pleasure from someone else's misfortune" In a word: "Schadenfreude!"😆 Which is a combination of words and feelings, from the German roots of Schaden ("damage) and Freude ("joy") and germane to the cause...

"Get used to it..." as in hearing it, as our other home team 🏈 preps to travel to Germany for a foreign affair, just eleven days prior to our Thanksgiving. We're talking about the Wide, Weird World of Sports.😏


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