Naturally these examples prompted knowing laughter from the journalists in attendance, but you had to wonder how on earth players were expected to conquer these sections in the final game.
Abbott, an unintimidating-looking, salt-of-the-earth player, pitched five innings of no-hit ball, going pitch for pitch, stride for stride with the big, bad and injured Roger Clemens.
They commented that Alakazam was good for "down-to-Earth" players who don't want to use legendaries like Mew or Mewtwo.
The first stop on the tour was a 2007 work by the Scottish artist Katie Paterson, "Earth-Moon-Earth": a player piano doing a version of Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata, complete with glitches picked up in the course of converting the music to Morse code, bouncing the signals off the Moon, then reconverting them to musical notes.
The fact that Ronaldo might not be the best soccer player on earth — and that a comparative lightweight, Leo Messi, consistently beats him to the world player awards — spurs the Portuguese to seek self-improvement.
As the "Last Human on Earth", the player fights off approaching enemies with their laser rifle.
"I'm the happiest man on earth," Abraham Ramos, the player's father, said in comments broadcast late Friday on Venezuelan state television.
Mora, the Indianapolis Colts' head coach, called Martin a salt-of-the-earth type of player and agreed that he was an overlooked talent in the National Football League.
Caldwell's fistful of blue shirt was instinctive, Lampard dropped to earth as attacking players invariably do, and both the penalty and the red card were to the letter of the law.
It is useful, of course, for the back four to be able to communicate with each other, but the manager's default measure of filling a defensive hole with a French speaker does not suggest that he combs the corners of the earth for suitable players.
One is the most gifted soccer player on earth, quite possibly the greatest soccer player ever.
