"I'm a dry-heave guy," he said.
While the work clearly gets done to everyone's satisfaction, there's also an element of good-natured larking about ("Heave!" one guy urges me gleefully as I lean fruitlessly into a long train of cages, only to find someone else is pushing it back from the other end).
"Here we go, team!" a cheerleader shouted before two burly guys heaved her into the air.
I hollered encouragement at some guy struggling to heave a cement bucket 50 feet in the air.
And guys like Reince Priebus heave a sigh of relief.
But today, with the ball in his hands at the end, he was merely part of New York's elixir, the guy whose 3-point heave fell short, making the building erupt and the Knicks feel good about themselves again.
That record is updated and displayed every time he starts a game, more as justification than information: "Yes, we know you are watching a guy close his eyes and heave the ball into tight downfield coverage, but look, he has won many games, so he must do something right".
The possible return of the powerful running back Steven Jackson (day-to-day, thigh) could help; when your your top red-zone weapons are guys like Greg Salas, the urge to just heave the ball away in frustration must be powerful.
If I'm sitting next to a straight guy, he'll basically take the little container and heave it into his mouth".
We dragged, heaved and sawed to clear the drive and called Isaac the tree guy.
Eventually, he said, "the other guy who was on the wing and myself sort of grabbed her and heaved".
