Big ups to Aaron Castellan over at Points in Case for making a truly gritty post yesterday on the state of the nation’s pastime. Aaron dutifully captured the essence of everything that’s presently wrong with the game by comparing it to the idyllic strawman baseball from days of yore — we never experienced it, but George Will said it was amazing. Head on over there to check out Aaron as he lambasts those good for nothing steroid abusers for taking shortcuts. If you’re running less than 360′ around the bases, you ain’ gritty, son! Here’s an excerpt:

The world we live in is full of quick fixes. You know what quick fixes are? They’re loser talk for cheating. We should not tolerate the use of said fixes in our national pastime, Major League Baseball. The severity of crimes these dirty, stinky cheaters perpetrated on fans and American society cannot be overstated.

It has been shown to the people time and time again that baseball has been corrupted for years. We know this from players making statements, Congressional testimony, personal stories, checks and orders for supplements. For years we have heard Bud Selig insist there is not a drug problem in baseball, only to have George Mitchell come out with a report that essentially calls him a douche, a liar, and a big, dumb nerd. We have the evidence we need. We know people have tested positive for steroids. Alex Rodriguez hits a bunch of home runs but we all know they come in a needle package, wrapped in cheater wrapping paper and topped with a bow of disrespect for the game.

We couldn’t have said it any better ourselves if we had deep-fried our keyboard in readability oil. For this, Aaron Castellan just earned himself one golden star sticker and the respect of everybody here at Grit Baseball.