The fuel gauge shows you’ve got a little high-test left in the fuel tank. But the odometer’s telling anyone who’ll listen that the good stuff’s been significantly gunked up by years of engine crud. For every spurt, there’s an equal and opposite sputter.
All you see is the spurt: I still got it!
To everyone else, that short, sweet preseason swing that launches a home run (as it did a few days ago against the Reds) might as well have been Luke Appling vs. Warren Spahn in 1982. (The 75-year-old Appling famously took fellow codger Spahn deep in an old-timers’ game one fine summer day that year. He did not still have it.)
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