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Phil Cuzzi tossed 3 Brewers tonight. From CBS Sportsline: ] With Milwaukee leading 11-2 in the sixth, Yost joined Fielder in arguing a called third strike with plate umpire Phil Cuzzi. Both went back to the dugout without getting ejected despite their recent high-profile umpire confrontations; Fielder served a two-game suspension last month for inappropriate contact with an umpire, and Yost criticized umpires after he was thrown out of Sunday's loss at Atlanta. Geoff Jenkins' RBI single put the Brewers up 12-2, but the real fireworks had only begun. After Cuzzi called Damian Miller out on strikes to end the inning, Miller turned back to bark at Cuzzi as he walked back to the dugout. Cuzzi then ejected Brewers hitting coach Jim Skaalen between innings -- and Miller was tossed after he began to argue with Cuzzi as the catcher walked out to take his place behind home plate. Yost also came out to argue the call but remained in the game. Cuzzi finally tossed Yost in the top of the seventh, after Yost once again left the dugout to argue after Cuzzi called Rick Ankiel safe at home on a two-run single by Ryan Ludwick that made the score 12-5. Before Monday's game, Yost -- a protege of Atlanta's Bobby Cox, the most-ejected manager in major league history -- said he stood by his comments after Sunday's game. Even if it made him look like a sore loser as his team's playoff hopes faded. "If the truth gets you in trouble, then the heck with it," Yost said.

Where, IMO, they have no business being. Bradley vs. Winters (one perspective, not mine): ]On the Mark: Give Bradley benefit of doubt Mark Kriegel FOXSports.com Contrary to popular opinion, sportswriting is a hazardous vocation. Everyday my colleagues risk wrath and embarrassment. With that in mind, I now take the most precarious position in all of sports: giving the Padres' Milton Bradley the benefit of the doubt. Bradley, famous for his own anger management issues, says he was baited into a confrontation Sunday by first base umpire Mike Winters, who allegedly called him "a ------- piece of ----." Whatever Winters actually said, Bradley's resulting tantrum did not end until he limped off the field with what was later diagnosed � according to FOXSports.com's Ken Rosenthal � as a torn ACL. He's out for the season, and if the Padres somehow manage to hold off the Phillies and the Rockies, the postseason, too. Milton Bradley deserves no credit for acting, once again, like Milton Bradley. He's had a bad rep with the umps, and just about everyone else, since he was in the minors. He is what he is. But if Winters is found to have egged him on, he is something worse. The last thing baseball needs is an umpire violating the integrity of the game, and that's what we're talking about here. "In 26 years of baseball, I can honestly say that's the most disconcerting conversation I have ever heard from an umpire to a player," said Padres first base coach Bobby Meacham, who has a reputation for even temperedness. "It was almost like he wanted to agitate the whole thing." Rockies first baseman Todd Helton, another eyewitness, would only tell the San Diego Union Tribune that the Bradley-Winters conversation "was very interesting." Helton is not in an enviable spot, but that shouldn't save him from talking to an investigator from the commissioner's office. Bradley was quick to compare Major League Baseball with the NBA, whose commissioner indefinitely suspended referee Joey Crawford two days after a now-famous altercation with Tim Duncan. He has a point. Umpires shouldn't be affecting games, much less pennant races. What's more, baseball has a history of letting investigations drag on. This time, Bud Selig needs to deal with and dispose of this matter as soon and as transparently as possible. Announcing his findings on Tuesday would send the right signal for a change. Bradley says Winters accused him of throwing a bat earlier in the game. But that seems to have been just a flashpoint. There's talk that the umpires have it in for San Diego � who saw David Wells suspended for seven games earlier in the season � because Padres CEO Sandy Alderson, who served as their supervisor when he worked for the commissioner, was a tough boss. There is also talk that the umpires have gotten a little out of control. Just hours before the Bradley-Winters mess, after the Brewers lost to Atlanta, Milwaukee manager Ned Yost blasted the umpires: "There's got to be some accountability," he told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. "You've got kids out there busting their butt and playing their hearts out and you get that kind of effort? It's a joke. "We expect them to do their job just like we're doing our job. You're paid to get the calls right it wasn't even just today. It was the whole series." If you can't believe the officials calling the game, you can't believe the game. You don't have to be David Stern to know that. So here's hoping that Selig makes a quick ruling and I can go back to my regular job, goofing on people like Milton Bradley.

I didn't think I'd be saying this was a great game, because how can you when some of your players fail you like that? But ya know what? Thats baseball and this was a great game.

Alou in the post game interview: " We are still in first place. We have to play that way, and we have to act that way." I LOVE YOU ALOU!

WOW- METS WIN!

2 out! A liner to Chavez in center. Willie pulls Sele!

1 pitch, 1 out!

UUUUGGHHHHH! Alou STINGS IT into a DP. UUUUGHHHH! He ripped that ball! Right to third and Castillo is hung out to dry.

Valadius wrote: Who's gonna pitch the bottom half? Sele

I couldn't even watch--had to go walk the dog I don't have.

Ugh--Alou woulda been so dead. What a throw there. COME ON ENDY!

Dads keeps it goin!

Alou starts it off!

Wagner can't go 2 unless he really feels that throwing more will help his back work out it's kinks. Lets get some runs right away guys!

Willie: "The Mets are now in playoff mode." If this is playoff mode I'm gonna need a Hannibal Lector mask to keep from biting my fingers off.

18 bunt outs

WOOOOO Man, that ball was hit hard , right to Wright.

UHGHH! Get Heilman outta there!

Gwreck wrote: Message to Gary Cohen: STFU about the Jets. Nobody gives a crap. Nor do I give a shit about Keith's adventures in convenience stores. That wasn't "down the line Keith". Heilman can't find the plate, and when he does, the Fish bats find his balls. WE CANNOT LET THIS ONE GET AWAY. WHAT A THROWS BY ALOU! TIEING RUN OUT AT THE PLATE! 2 out. Man on 2nd.

Edgy DC wrote: ="Johnny Dickshot"]So-so's already pitched. He bailed out Feliciano/Maine. I was laying shelf paper. Is that what they call it these days?