Mitchell!

Yesterday's all day baseball story was the release of the Mitchell Report.

I'm going to go with Larry Stone's write up as the lead in to it all.

The long-awaited Mitchell Report — a 20-month investigation by former Sen. George Mitchell into baseball's steroids scandal — doesn't take long to cut to the chase.

The 409-page document begins: "For more than a decade there has been widespread illegal use of anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing substances by players in Major League Baseball, in violation of federal law and baseball policy."

And from that stern jumping-off point, Mitchell's report — for which he and his investigators conducted more than 700 interviews and reviewed 115,000 pages of documents — provides considerable fireworks.

I am not going to focus on the names. You can get those HERE. The one thing that I am going to pull out of Stone's article are the following lines.

"Everyone involved in baseball over the past two decades — commissioners, club officials, the Players Association and players — shares to some extent the responsibility for the steroids era," Mitchell writes.

"There was a collective failure to recognize the problem as it emerged and to deal with it early on. As a result, an environment developed in which illegal use became widespread."

Imagine that.