Siento.

Je. suis désolé.

I'm sorry.

The mea culpas are flying around spring training sites more than fastballs these days — and in different languages, no less.

Apologies have gone bilingual.

Eric Gagne, now with the Milwaukee Brewers, said he was sorry in French.

Paul LoDuca said "my bad," too, even though he never actually said what the bad was that he did. Call it the Jason Giambi School of Regret.

Welcome to Spring Training 2008, where the talk is not of OPS, but of HGH; it's not of steals, but of steroids.

And everyone and their beefed up brother is coming out with their own personal reparation for doing the dastardly deed of enhancing their performance.

Even Glenallen Hill, who hasn't struck out or dropped a fly ball in seven years, came out and admitted 'roiding up.

But the apology king by far is Andy Pettitte.

Honest Andy owned it. He spoke about why he did it, when he did it and how many times he did it.

But Pettitte is in the minority. Not many are following his lead of full disclosure.

Miguel Tejada said, "No mas" to questions about why his name appeared in the Mitchell Report more times than he circled the bases last season.

Roger Clemens prefers to deny everything, despite the fact the evidence is piling up faster than his career wins, strikeouts and Cy Young Awards.

And someone should put out an APBfor Barry Bonds. Where is he? I think he's locked himself in a bomb shelter somewhere.

Maybe he's in the steroid protection program.

Players should look at how Pettitte is being viewed in the court of public opinion and use him as a template for how they should repent.

As a public service, here is a little cheat sheet for all those players out there who have used performance enhancers, but can't find the right words to say they are sorry:

I (insert name here) apologize for my use of (HGH, steroids, greenies, flaxseed oil). It was a lapse in judgment and it embarrassed me and my (family, fans, agent, HGH dealer).I only did it (once, maybe twice, who am I kidding — I wanted to look like Hulk Hogan) and I only did it to (heal faster from an injury, save my fading career, because I never thought I would actually get caught).I made poor decisions and I only have (myself, Bud Selig, my wussy personal trainer, Jose Canseco) to blame.Speaking of Canseco, the dude looks like a genius.It was just three years ago that his book "Juiced" hit the shelves with the force of one of his monstrous swings. Back then, people scoffed at the high percentage of steroid users he claimed were infesting the game.He doesn't look all that crazy now. In what is perhaps his biggest Nostradamus moment,Canseco wrote this on the back cover of his book in 2005: "The challenge is not to find a top player who has used steroids. The challenge is to find a top player who

hasn't."That couldn't be more true these days.Mike Kilroy is a staff writer for the Butler Eagle.