After seeing Prince Fielder shove Manny Parra back to the bench during Monday's game in Cincinnati, my first instinct was to make the easy vegetarian joke and say that Prince's blood sugar was low. 

But this morning, beat writer Tom Haudricourt posted this hearsay quote from Fielder — "We stayed out there and watched your (bleep). You can stay out here and watch our (bleep)" — an all-timer, if there ever was one .. and one that sheds a little more light on the situation.

If Parra was bailing on the game to go play PSP in the locker room, then it's easy to see why Fielder went into his "Prince! Angry! Prince! Smash!" mode. It also makes it easy to see that Fielder isn't anywhere close to being a team leader, which in turn somehow shows that Ned Yost isn't fit to be Milwaukee's manager in the middle of a pennant race.

That's a circuitous route, I know, but this latest episode is just the latest piece of evidence that Yost has lost control of his team for the second season in a row. On another team, with a different crew of players, I think Yost's managing style mix of somehow being both laissez-faire and — for lack of a better word — a major red-(rear) would work. But not with a young crop of players who have either little experience or no inclination to set an example for others. (I think Ryan Braun will get there eventually, but still doesn't have enough time under his belt to really make a clubhouse difference.)

So what happens now? I honestly have no idea. Yost has seemingly been on the edge of the plank over the past 12 months or so, yet GM Bob Doug Melvin has made it clear that he'll be the lead dog until we're notified otherwise. Which means the Brewers have three options when it comes to this one-sided shoving match — which path do you think they'll take?