ABOVE: Phillies third base coach Sam Perlozzo attempts to stop Jayson Werth from running at a Giants player full speed and slapping him in the face.

Nothing helps stop a monotonous cascade to a division’s festering underbelly like a good old fashioned contractual “impasse” with Jayson Werth.

Never mind this season, which has managed to hustle its way into a losing streak that even Roy Halladay couldn’t tamper with successfully.  Let’s start the god-awful process of determining just how likely it is that Jayson Werth will be a Giant or a Met or a (*Vomits into bag*) Yankee in 2011.  Did you know he’s the only starter without an extension past this year?  Yeah, you probably did.  Sorry.

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