Hulk Hogan calls out baseball

November 2, 1:14 PMPerformance Enhancing Drugs Issues ExaminerShaun Murphy

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In an interview with Time.com, Hulk Hogan took offense with baseball and their stance on performance enhancing drugs. Hogan said, “The baseball thing is a joke.”

Hogan was referring to the history of drug testing in baseball. Hogan should know about using performance enhancing drugs, admitting to using steroids earlier in his career.

He said, “I've got a lot of these guys' rookie cards and if you see the size of their necks and forearms compared to their size when they were first signed, it's pretty obvious that they've got a problem. For some reason everyone else has been under the microscope — wrestling, football, the Olympics — and now all of a sudden the baseball industry is going, "We had no idea," which is just insulting.”

Hogan has a point. While other sports were proactive in addressing PEDs, baseball continued to be in denial. Their denial continued until it could no longer sustain itself and people started questioning the reliability of some hallowed statistics.

Baseball knows they have a problem when admitted steroid users think they were protecting the use of PEDs. However, baseball is now in a better place than professional wrestling.Interact: Leave a comment and see if it gets selected for a future Shaun Talks Back (STB) column. Follow me on Twitter.