Although they are more than 10 stories above the match being played below, in a sense this is the best seat in the house.
After three consecutive All-Star seasons for the Colorado Rockies, Holliday, for the first time, is playing below-average baseball with career lows in batting average, on-base percentage and slugging percentage.
As Blair likes to say, this title game was played "below the rim and between the ears" and it was indisputably superior to the men's final showing.
Six stories high, it had thin wooden columns supporting a roof over the elevated terrace, the royal vantage point for watching the polo matches that were played below hundreds of years ago.
"As young people focus on the N.B.A. and what they and their coaches need to do to get here, we will see much more emphasis on those components of the game that are played below the rim: outside shooting, jump shots, passing and what our coaches and general managers are saying are the quote fundamentals," Stern said.
The 1699 Stradivarius known as the Lady Tennant (being played, below, by Adela Peña of the Eroica Trio last Friday) will be auctioned at Christie's at Rockefeller Center, in a sale that starts this morning at 10. Also on the block will be a 1701 Gofriller cello, several guitars, a harp and a 1795 flute.
With a businesslike dunk early in the tournament against Florida, and a breakaway, two-handed rim-hanger against Georgia Tech, Griner emphatically rebutted the contention by those who would dismiss women's basketball that it is unworthy because it is played below the rim.
You're playing below your normal threshold.
On June 7, 2010, a group of Mexican teenagers were playing below a bridge leading to the United States border in a channel that separated Juarez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas.
It's as if we were watching a Wimbledon final in which, quite unlike the sizzler we actually witnessed on Sunday, the two combatants were playing below their reputations and giving us a dull match.
