Schadenfreude: taking pleasure in the misfortune of others...

There are some people in this world that I just don't like. Most of these people are famous. Most of the time these people have not done anything to me specifically but it is their fame that irks me. The fact that everywhere you look there they are is what bothers me. Paris Hilton is one of these people. She is famous for being famous. Another of these people is Andy Roddick.

Now admittedly Roddick has a better reason for being famous. He is a really good tennis player. He is ranked 4th in the world. But the problem is that he is too famous. Watching the U.S. Open today you couldn't help but notice that every time they went to commercial he was in one. Meanwhile Roger Federer (the horse I am backing) who has been ranked #1 for 83 straight weeks had maybe one commercial endorsement deal. Andy Roddick is easy to dislike. He is very cocky and I know some people who new him in high school and they said he was kind of an asshole. He is also very pretty guy. He is the Anna Kournikova of Men's Tennis. The main reason he gets the endorsement deals is because he is the best American hope to win the open. I guess the hopes are crushed. You see he lost yesterday. In the first round. In straight sets. Against a player ranked 68th. On his birthday. This guy didn't just go down, he went down hard. It's not even funny anymore, it's just sad. I feel bad for not liking him. But he will eventually do some other asshole thing and I will be able to not like him again. Here's hoping he hurries up.

To read about his spectacular loss click here:
http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/tennis/usopen05/columns/story?id=2147513

With 83 straight weeks at #1 Roger Federer has the 7th most consecutive weeks at #1. Pete Sampras has the most with 286 weeks.