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Yeah, and I say this as someone who regularly climbs mountains in the late afternoon/early evening, but even in central Alaska (this is not Barrow, after all) in summer, fording a river after midnight is not ideal. 

Crossing a surging river around midnight. What could go wrong?

Got it. Thanks. Still confusing, IMHO, what the antecedent was to "those games."

Did the Yanks win a couple of the games this week with dingers, while the Sox outscored them 38-13?

I have read this sentence 8 times, and I still can’t tell whether it’s supposed to refer to BOS or NYY (and it doesn't make sense either way?):

I, for one, do *not* drink alcohol simply “to get drunk.”

so I yelped and eventually smacked it with my Birkenstock

Carroll would have been really pissed, if Malcolm Butler hadn’t blocked his view of Thomas’s bird.

It’s refreshing to see a mosque threatened by an autocrat’s mob of goons and not have the U.S. President involved. 

The child was transported to a clinic within the park and later released

He’s gonna be crying, alright, when he discovers that ‘polygraph’ doesn’t mean two chicks at once.

“Now, down this hall, you’ll find the home theater, or ‘metrosexual cave,’ as the current owner calls it . . .”

As an aside, respect for the wooden racquet.  We’d have a better game at the pro level, if they stuck to those vintage materials and sizes.

Definitely something fishy about this guy. 

Jesus Christ, don't trigger this recovering nicotine addict with references to Lucky Strikes!

If they didn’t want me mixing booze and drugs, they shouldn’t have given me drugs now, should they?  That’s on them.

Those were precisely my dad’s first signs of dementia.  Have a nice day!

No joke, my buddy and I were walking behind the school one day, and there, by the trash, was an empty box labelled:

RIP, Don Pardo.