Man Alive doesn't sound like anything I've done in the past,

There are no global epidemics like there were in the past. Just local ones.

I'm not reading too much into the past couple of trading days. The longer-term trend has for the most part been positive.

There will be a five-foot diameter around each flag so visitors can easily walk past.

I haven't surfed that much in the past couple of weeks,

They're steeped in tradition, and they've always kind of been lurking around the top 20 for the past few years. Traditionally they've been giant-killers. They always come out hard against good opponents.