Nothing embodies the interminable slog of a lost season like an expensive closer warming up for a game in which his team is doing six or seven runs in the ninth inning. He's not coming in to notch a precious save, or hold a lead. He's just coming in to the game so that his arm doesn't fully decay.
The camera was kept on Jonathan Papelbon the entire time he was yawning while warming up in the bullpen.
— Andrew Desiderio (@desiderioDC) July 19, 2015
Each time Jonathan Papelbon would trot in, we would be reminded of the oft-repeated baseball truth that there are fewer money-sucks than a $50 million closer on a team pacing itself for a resoundingly last place finish.