A-Rod

One silver lining in the A-Rod thing is that, while this certainly doesn't end the steroids-in-baseball narrative, it nearly ends a big part of it: exposing new players. Sosa, McGwire, Bonds, Clemens, A-Rod. Once A-Rod gets added to that list, there really can't be any more shockers. If Pujols or Guerrero or Helton get added, is anyone surprised? Jeter would a be pretty big deal, granted, but he's an anomaly. So while A-Rod doing it doesn't necessarily mean that 100% of the league was on roids, it does mean that we have all been thoroughly desensitized to this sort of thing. Which is good, because it's such a nonissue.