Alex Rodriguez spoke to Peter Gammons in an exclusive ESPN interview that aired yesterday, and he seemed open and remorseful about his use of performance-enhancing drugs.

“When I arrived in Texas in 2001, I felt an enormous amount of pressure. I felt like I had all the weight of the world on top of me and I needed to perform, and perform at a high level every day…

“Back then, [baseball] was a different culture,” Rodriguez said. “It was very loose. I was young. I was stupid. I was naive. And I wanted to prove to everyone that I was worth being one of the greatest players of all time…

“I’m guilty for a lot of things. I’m guilty for being negligent, naive, not asking all the right questions. And to be quite honest, I don’t know exactly what substance I was guilty of using.”

All right, good times.  I’m all for never talking about steroids again if everybody else is, too.  Can we talk about something interesting now?  Like how A-Rod is wearing a kabbalah bracelet?