I remember the exact moment when I lost my faith.It was Saturday, Feb. 7, 2009, at 10:01 CST when I got the text message that would forever change my perception about America’s pastime.”U hear bout arod?” it said.”No,” I sent back. It was early, and I hadn’t turned on a television.”Tested positive for steroids in 2003,” a friend from back home in Atlanta typed.  And in an instant, everything I knew about steroids in baseball was turned on its head – Alex Rodriguez and probably hundreds of other guys we never suspected were dirty.”This couldn’t be true,” I thought. “Clearly my friend is lying.”My friend is a joker, and it wouldn’t be the first time he’s tricked me into believing something false about an athlete.There was no way this three-time Most Valuable Player, 12-time All Star, 10-time Silver Slugger award winner and four-time Hank Aaron Award winner could have been playing dirty.But as I logged onto ESPN.com minutes later, it was there, plain as day on the homepage.A link to a Sports Illustrated report said the slugger tested positive for testosterone and Primobolan, an anabolic steroid, in 2003 — his first MVP season.That sealed it.No one can believe in baseball anymore.We’ve heard the stories of Barry Bonds, Jose Canseco, Mark McGwire and other guys who have ballooned into caricatures of their younger selves with bulging biceps and gigantic heads. But Rodriguez was never mentioned in any of this talk. He was considered by many to be the last hope for clean players doing great things in an era marred by suspicion of steroids.We were all wrong.My haste to condemn Bonds and McGwire may have blinded me from the possibility that Rodriguez was a cheater.He’s always been a consistent guy — a lifetime .306 batting average with 2,404 hits and 553 home runs in 13 full seasons.Rodriguez has also always had pretty good power numbers with a slugging percentage of .578 for his career.But I just never saw it coming.He told “60 Minutes” in 2007 he had never used performance enhancers or even thought about doing them.And I believed him, because I thought he was the guy who was going to pass Barry Bonds and do it clean.And I liked that about him.Even with steroids running rampant in baseball, a guy was putting up epic numbers and doing it without the help of steroids. With the latest report that not only he, but 103 other major leaguers tested positive for steroids in 2003, it begs the question: Who else?Can I believe that Manny Ramirez has hit his 527 home runs without the help of performance enhancers, or that Randy Johnson’s fastball regularly reached 100 miles an hour by the forces of nature alone?I don’t know if I can anymore.   So Rodriguez was right when he told ESPN on Monday afternoon he was “stupid” to take the steroids. I don’t know which achievements were done the old-fashioned way — through hard work and perseverance — and which ones were attained by cheating and taking shortcuts.It’s a terrible reality we must live in.Now, everyone who has done anything remarkable in baseball since I’ve been alive falls under the cloud of suspicion. Those great Braves’ teams I rooted for, the Yankees in the late ‘90s and every all-star from the past two decades could have been tainted.The guys we trusted and admired the most ruined America’s national pastime.The sport has no more legitimacy.—-Contact Johanathan Brooks at [email protected]