A Tale of Two Trainers

[Electrocutionist]

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.

[P-Dub]

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.