The greatest interviewer in the business, Dave Brown of Yahoo!’s Big League Stew, spent a little QT with everyone’s favorite bearded rightfielder the other day in Clearwater. The entire interview is classic, but the part that fascinated me was when Dave had the GALL to ask Jayson if he could touch his beard:

Did Dave Brown get to touch the Beard?  Find out, only on The Stew.

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This amateur video was taken by someone in the crowd during last night’s win over FSU at Bright House Field. The paparazzi were obviously out in full force to catch a glimpse of Jayson Werth’s Beard.

(via @CrashburnAlley)

(Photos by Nick Laham/Getty Images)

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No matter what happens for the rest of Spring Training, I think it’s safe to say that nothing will have the impact of the Epic Jayson Werth Beard that we saw today. It started off with as a fairly innocent tweet from Todd Zolecki about Jayson’s new facial hair growth, then everyone demanded photographic evidence of said growth, then Zolecki obliged, then the internet blew up. The funny thing is, I’ll bet you Jayson Werth himself thinks we’re a bunch of fairy boys for making such a spectacle of his Beard, and will most likely shave it off tonight out of spite.

Whether he keeps it or not, I really just wanted to take this opportunity to highlight Charlie Manuel’s quote on Jayson Werth’s Beard. The man has such a poetic way of stating the obvious:

“He looks like a guy that didn’t do a whole lot this winter, kinda isolated himself somewhere… and he didn’t have a razor and a barber around.”

-Charlie Manuel on Jayson Werth’s Beard

Watch the full CSN Philly report on Jayson Werth’s Beard, including the Charlie quote, after the jump.

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If you don’t mind, I’m just gonna keep updating this post throughout the day with each spectacular picture of Jayson Werth’s new beard. Cool? I’ll start if off with the original Todd Zolecki pic, this is the one that’s gonna win all the major photography awards at the end of the year:

(via The Zo Zone)

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(last updated 2/23 at 7:30pm)

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Behold, my friends. Jayson Werth is your Jesus.

(pic via Todd Zolecki)

As of 9:22 yesterday morning, baseball season has arrived.

Thanks to the intrepid reporting of Milwaukee’s own Todd Zolecki, we have the first bit of evidence that baseball has arrived in Philadelphia, vis a vis Clearwater, Florida. It is the first such activity in Phillies baseball since Shane Victorino grounded out in early November, and brother, not a moment too soon.

Of course, it’s technically been baseball season in Philadelphia since December 16^th, when Ruben Amaro pulled the trigger on two trades that are likely to define his place in Phillies history, when he sent Cliff Lee to Seattle in exchange for prospects, while bringing in Roy Halladay, whereupon he inked a tidy, team-friendly extension to keep him in Phillies pinstripes for the foreseeable future.

Since that day, it’s been three months of Christmas Eves. Nothing but anticipation and wonderment for what’s waiting on the other side of tomorrow.

Well, we can wait no more, folks, because tomorrow has arrived, and it is officially the start of spring training, as pitchers, catchers, and a handful of motivated position players arrive to start the magical ride known as baseball season.

From here, it’s a few short weeks until split squads and starts by guys we’ve never heard of, and before you know it, Doc will be taking the mound in Nationals Park on April 5^th.

So allow me to kick start your 2010 season with a list that I like to call…THE SIX MOST IMPORTANT MEMBERS OF THE PHILLIES IN 2010.

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Don’t fack with Chan Ho Park.

“The suit claims Park loaned Kreuter $460,000 in October 2005 to be repaid a year later with interest. Park alleges Kreuter paid back $290,000 in April 2007 and the unpaid balance has grown, with interest, to $281,869.73 as of Dec. 1.”

Hey, Chan Ho! Don’t ever lend 460,000 of anything (let alone our weak-ass national fiat currency) to anyone. If you fail to heed my sound advice, make sure that when you get the promissory note signed, witnessed and notarized, that it’s on paper that is safe for septic systems.

What’s going to happen is this: dude won’t pay you back like promised, you’re going to sue, AP will pick up the story, and some smart-ass on the internet is going to open his Google Reader a week after the story has gone cold. Once this happens, he will use this as an opportunity to tell you to get your head out of your ass and re-sign with the Phillies as a reliever.

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Young Ubaldo Jimenez looked like a pitcher possessed his first time through the Phillies lineup. Out of the first eight batters he faced, only one of them managed to get on base, and he (Jayson Werth) was quickly erased after Raul Ibanez grounded into a double play. Jimenez was changing speeds masterfully, hitting his spots (the curveball he threw on the outside corner to backwards K Ryan Howard was SICK), and for a second it looked like Game 1 was shaping up to be an incredible pitchers’ duel.

But then in the fifth inning, Phillies batters decided to show some killer patience and made the young righty throw a ton of pitches. Before you knew it, every guy on the Phillies was getting good wood on the ball and you could tell they were one big blast away from knocking Ubaldo out of the game.

That big blast eventually came off the bat of Jayson Werth when he WALLOPED a ball that would’ve been a home run on any other day of the season, but because the winds were blowing in around 35mph, Werth’s ball landed at the top of the wall in left-center juuust out of reach from the outstretched arm of Dexter Fowler.

Werth wound up settling for a triple, and Jimenez reacted like somebody just duct taped his kitten and threw it in the back yard. Cheer up, Ubaldo! Your season will be over soon!

HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAH

On aside, is it just me or is Jimenez (stage name=Jimene-Z) a dead ringer for a young Jay-Z?

All-Star Outfielder Jayson Werth chomps on a victory cigar…

…then channels his inner Method Man.

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