Our motto is still keep shoveling. We want to be the guys with the shovel in our hand, getting dirty and not getting all glamorized and Hollywood after two games.

Sometimes it feels like we're shoveling sand against the tide. We shovel some bad guys out of the way, and there's some new and younger and more energetic ones to take their place.

They called a spade an old dirty shovel, if you know what I mean.

[Pauline Kael never forgave Clint Eastwood for that statement or for making Dirty Harr y, and she was on hand to set her hooks into the inevitable sequel that followed in 1973, Magnum Force . Of that film she wrote:] Clint Eastwood isn't offensive. He isn't an actor, so one could hardly call him a bad actor....And acting isn't required of him in Magnum Force , which takes its name from the giant's phallus. ... A tall, cold cod like Eastwood removes the last pretensions to human feeling from the action melodrama, making it an impersonal, almost abstract exercise in brutalization.

If you had a shovel, he wanted a shovel. As long as you were there he was too. He had to be helping you.

They might be one-batter guys or two. Got to see what they look like.