Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon clarified comments made earlier this week about the possibility of pitching elsewhere in the future. Papelbon said that he would be open to playing anywhere, including for the Yankees, if Boston didn't give him a long-term deal. "I know I said what I said, I'm not going to deny that. But I think at times fans may see that and think I don't want to play here and my manager and general manager might think I'm not happy here, and that's nowhere even close," Papelbon said Friday. "It kind of (ticked) me off today because it made it seem like I wanted to go play for (the Yankees), which is nowhere even close, nowhere even in the ballpark of what I want to do." He added that he would be happy playing for a succession of one-year deals in Boston. "It's not about going to play for money because if it was, guess what - I wouldn't be closing right now; I'd be starting," said Papelbon. "(The Red Sox) don't owe me nothing. ... I need the Boston Red Sox more than the Boston Red Sox need me. Believe me when I say that, because this is the place where I'm happy and I need a place where I'm happy. "I'm in a situation here, I'm playing for the best general manager and manager in the game of baseball and I've got a (expletive) World Series ring here, you know, so do I want to go play anywhere else? Hell no."