Mike Scioscia’s tragic illness might have made us smile when he appeared on The Simpsons a decade ago, but around these parts there are no warm feelings toward him anymore. Least of all Nationals manager Frank Robinson, whom the W. Post quotes: “I lost a lot of respect for Mike tonight, as a person and as a manager. There’s nothing he can say to me now. Nothing. I don’t even want him to approach me. I don’t want him to try to apologize to me. If he even thought about it, I will not accept it. I don’t want anything to do with it.”

Rowr. During last night’s game at Los Angeles (or Anaheim), Robinson accused Angels reliever Brendan Donnelly of using a banned “substance.” Not steroids, but pine tar. Game officials confirmed F-Rob’s suspicions, and Donnelly was gone from the game. Scioscia, the Angels’ manager, immediately threatened to “undress” — that is, search — every member of the Nats ballclub for the same reason. From there, mere anarchy was loosed upon Angel Stadium. Dugouts cleared. Bullpens cleared. Things grew tense, and former Angel Jose Guillen — who left SoCal known as a tantrum-prone diva — did something. We can’t quite figure out what Guillen did, besides looking really angry. (Unfortunately for the completeness of this account, last night’s game was an evening one by Pacific time, and we couldn’t stay up to watch the whole thing (if anyone wonders about the causes of East coast bias in sports, time zones are one to account for.)) The Post says “appeared to snap,” which sounds to us a bit like Big Ed Muskie “appearing to cry” in January ’72. Whatever happened, no one besides Donnelly was suspended, and the Nats went on to win 6-3.