Electrocutionist Wrote:
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> Glad to see you guys bury the hatchet. Ok, I could
> have said "kiss and make up" but chose not to. I
> don't post much unless I think it's important.
> I've read both your comments over the years and
> always appreciated your points of view.
>
> My only beef with the SNL bit is that it repeats
> the commonly held belief that all steroids are bad
> and all are performance enhancers. Betamethasone
> is an anti-inflammatory, and in fact if these
> types of glucocorticoid steroids are used
> long-term, they cause muscle weakening. As opposed
> to anabolic steroids (testosterone and similar
> steroids) that are used to build muscle. I know
> that you guys know this, but the general public
> hears "steroids" and the knee-jerk reaction is
> that the trainer is juicing the horse. This is a
> bit different (assuming my speculation about joint
> injections is correct), but maybe it's just
> semantics. Probably best to uphold the most
> stringent threshold values for these drugs.
The general public isn't sophisticated enough about the game to know the difference, all they know is that somehow he is cheating.
BTW I thought it was kinda funny.....which is rare for that show.
P-Dub
