Major League Baseball (MLB) suffered a serious blow today when the “Mitchell Report” was released.

Former Senator George Mitchell said that every MLB team has had some player or players who used steroids or other performance enhancing drugs.

The investigation lacked any muscle to do a thorough review. Mitchell had no subpoena power. Players did not have to talk to him. Most did not cooperate. If a player never failed a drug test, then it will be hard for MLB to do anything about it.

Nonetheless, this report will change the way we look at the game and it is probably just the tip of the iceberg. It seems there’s more dirty laundry out there.

Some of the major stars of the last decade were named on the list as taking steroids. MLB did not start testing for steroids until 2003, although they have been part of baseball’s banned substance list since 1991. In 2003, there was one random test per player per year. In January 2005 MLB started year-round testing and they increased the penalty if a player was caught.

It appears to me that MLB has brought a lot of this on themselves by not policing the game better. MLB was already losing fans. They will continue the downward spiral.

So what will happen to all the records since the mid 1990s until now? Maybe they should just place an asterisk at the top of each page.

Mitchell recommends that no players be suspended for any past transgressions. It appears that many of the players named in this report will suffer greatly no matter what MLB decides to do.