shouldn’t this be standard

My New Year’s Resolutions – 2025

Posted on January 1, 2025 by pauldelancey

Last year sucked in many ways. Unfortunately, it’s unreasonable to expect eight billion people, viruses, and the forces of nature to better themselves in 2025.

Sigh.

So it’s up to me to improve our world.

I hereby resolve to

1) Not eat mushrooms
2) Not eat lutefisk
3) Not wear pajamas all day long unless quite ill.

Many of you, no doubt, notice that I make these same resolutions and that I keep them, every single one of them. Thank you.

“I’ve never strayed from all I believe.
“I’m blessed with an iron will.
“Had I been made the partner of Eve,
“We’d be in Eden still.”

– Sir Lanceleot, Camelot

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

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The Great Pennant Race We’re Not Having

Posted on August 19, 2024 by pauldelancey

As it stands, the American League essentially plays 1,215 games to determine the SIXTH best team. The top four teams remain virtually certain of making the playoffs. A good number of ball clubs are not likely to gain a playoff berth. With 6 – to – 10 teams not battling for the three wild-card spots fans really won’t care in what position their favorites finish. It didn’t use to be that way, sixth place was clearly better than seventh or eighth.

But maybe the current six-team play off format is yielding tons of tons of excitement.

No. Boston, the seventh best squad is 3.5 games out of the last playoff spot.

However, if the top teams in the league were to be in a single division, only-the-best-club goes to the World Series system we’d a truly crackerjack pennant race.

I would sit by my phone waiting for the American League to call me on this, but alas I don’t think they will.

But please look at the following comparison:

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

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