ANALYSIS/OPINION:
There was a palpable sense of electricity in the air when Bryce Harper walked into his pregame press conference Tuesday, looking like an American Country Music award nominee, with the cameras clicking and whirring as photographers got their shots of the former Nationals superstar.
Then, he began to speak. And slowly, steadily, the energy went out of the room.
This is not typical for a long-awaited media session with a superstar athlete. But a kind of exhaustion for all-things-Harper — a collective “What are we all doing here again?