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There is no policy in major-league baseball designed to avert incidents like the unfortunate one that occurred at the Rogers Centre on Monday night raw, in the dugout tunnel pitting Jays' manager John Gibbons and starting pitcher Ted Lilly.

"That's a judgment that, frankly, (GM) J.P. (Ricciardi) and (president) Paul Godfrey have to make," commissioner Bud Selig said yesterday. "There's no question that it's a responsibility of each ball club. I do micro-manage as many have said. I take that as a compliment. But in this particular case, it really is a club matter. They know the situation. The first time I know there is a problem is when I read it in the newspaper."

That seeming Pontius Pilate attitude with regard to clubhouse outbursts of temper — let's call it "laissez flare" — may soon need to change if incidents like Shea Hillenbrand/Gibbons or Lilly/Gibbons are allowed to continue unpunished.

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