Because if there was, I would bet my life savings on "A-Roid".

The Alex Rodriguez steroid story is a Rorschach test.  If you don't like him, then you see this as confirmation of everything you already thought.  If you are an A-Rod apologist, then you'll find a way to apologize for this to.  But the surprise and shock - SHOCK - that a prolific home run hitter from the last 15 years tested positive for steroids at some point in his career is bordering on ridiculous.

Go no further than ESPN.  Like a Southern belle suffering from a case of the vapors, Buster Olney declares that Rodriguez, who was supposed to rescue baseball's record books the steroid inflated numbers of Bonds, McGwire, and Sosa, is now hopelessly tainted and will be locked out of the Hall of Fame with the rest of them.

Rodriguez signed with the Rangers in 2001 to the richest contract in baseball history.  Texas has previously been home to such confirmed or suspected steroids users as Rafael Palmeiro, Jose Canseco, Sammy Sosa, and Ivan Rodriguez.  The Rangers were, and perhaps still are, the biggest hotbed for steroids outside of the Bay Area.  Surrounded by dopers, under incredible pressure from the contract he signed, and saddled with the desire to please everyone that makes him so incredibly annoying, he experimented with steroids.  To what extent, nobody knows but Rodriguez. 

Since testing has been instituted in 2004, A-Rod has been tested for steroids along with everybody else and has passed every test.  Prior to that season, it isn't just A-Rod that is tainted by steroids.  It is every player who hit more than 30 home runs in a season.  I find it difficult to pass judgment on A-Rod because we collectively turned a blind eye to the problem of steroids in baseball throughout the previous decade.  Steroids were no risk, all reward.  We cheered every home run without accountability.  How can we be surprised that anyone used them back then?  And how can we behave as if we are shocked - SHOCKED - when we find out the truth now?