12/14/2007

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.

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