Yesterday, I praised Adam Piatt for his admission of steroid use and efforts to assist former Senator George Mitchell in his efforts to investigate performance enhancing drug use in professional baseball. I wrote that "Hopefully the media will treat him well in light of his revelations as a sign to people in all industries that, no matter how badly you screw up, there is redemption to be found if you do what you can to fix it."

Now, free agent catcher Gary Bennett, who played for the St. Louis Cardinals in 2007, admitted in a phone interview with the Washington Post that he used human growth hormone: "As far as the report is concerned to me, it's accurate... Obviously, it was a stupid decision. It was a mistake. It was something that quite obviously, you regret now. And beyond that, I just don't know."

I would congratulate Bennett for his honesty -- more than a few players are insisting on their complete innocence in spite of strong evidence to the contrary. How are the fans reacting? This is just a small sample, but most of the comments left on the Washington Post blog post were very positive:

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