Steroids. Steroids. Steroids. Steroids. Steroids.

Steroids.

There. I got it out of my system.

And I didn't have to take human chorionic gonadotrophin to do it.

I was hoping baseball had gotten past that "S" word that rhymes with Oil Can Boyd. But, I was wrong.

Thanks, Manny Ramirez. Kudos, A-Fraud.

Now, 'roid talk has been given new life ... again.

Technically, Man-Ram wasn't caught with a steroid in his system. He was nailed for taking a female fertility drug, which has been known to level off testosterone production after a 'roid cycle.

Unless Manny was trying to be a real life Arnold Schwarzenegger in "Junior," his excuses don't cut it.

Insert the rise of the cynical masses here.

Now we are back in baseball-is-full-of-cheaters mode.

Players are guilty until proven innocent.

Skeptical eyes are following a whole new group of dudes. No one is exempt.

n Albert Pujols. He

says he is clean. But is he really? Maybe his bat is corked with the clear. He's cheating twice!• Prince Fielder. Maybe there is HGH in that vegetarian salad he is eating.• Evan Longoria. Maybe he was a desperate third baseman and wanted to be a coverboy and to tell everyone, "I'm an MVP."• David Ortiz. Well, no. He's on the anti-steroid these days: a wiener from Boston Speed's Famous Hot Dog Wagon.That's not to say he may have used when he was bashing 54 home runs in 2006.We don't know.Your favorite player might be pumping himself full of HGH or steroids or something we haven't even thought of yet right now.There are a few people we know are not on the stuff: Dmitri Young, every pitcher in the Cleveland Indians bullpen and every hitter in the Pittsburgh Pirates lineup.If they are on a PED, they need to stop; It isn't working. Try something else.Grab a branch of a tree struck by lightning, put it on a lathe and make a bat out of it. Carve a lightning bolt on it. That would work better.And I'm quite sure Jason Kendall is au naturale. A .226 batting average and four extra base hits in 96 at-bats is not a PED success story.Alex Rodriguez was one of more than 100 players caught in a preliminary survey drug test in 2003.Only A-Rod's name was leaked.Because we don't know the other names on that list, we have to guess.Major league Baseball needs to reveal those names. In fact, MLB needs to put this Steroid Era to rest once and for all.How do you do that? A lifetime ban.Caught 'roiding? You're done. One strike and you are out.It's the only way.Want more Mike Kilroy? Read the Butler Eagle staff writer's blog at butlereagle.com