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Pat Murphy says he still wasn’t a good coach even after winning at Notre Dame and going to the College World Series at Arizona State because he was still making it about him instead of the players “You know, when you get to a spot in life when you’re a little bit older, you start to make it not about you. When I dropped my ego, which took a while, I wasn’t a good coach at Notre Dame. Even though we were winning games, I still wasn’t good. I didn’t know baseball, for one, and it was about me a little bit at the end.” “I started the right way. I loved Notre Dame, and I didn’t want to embarrass the university. I was working for $7,000 a year. I just wanted to be good and not embarrass them. We had a lot of success, but then it became about me.” “And then I got to ASU, and it became about me again. We won a lot and went to the World Series a lot, but I just wasn’t good. It took getting knocked on my ass a little bit. I had that NCAA thing, which was total bull, but it woke me up. My kids made a difference in my life, and you start to realize it ain’t about you. Honestly, it’s not about me.” “And whenever I started focusing on that, we came into last year and everything wrong happens. We trade Corbin. Woody’s out for the year. Devin’s out. We cut the budget $30 million. We’re going to suck. And again, I just kept saying, ‘It’s not about me. Make it about that young energy.’ And we had these young guys go out and make me look good. Hungry players, you remember when you guys were hungry in your career? Hungry players make the manager look good.” “And that’s exactly what happened. Now I got the credit for it. I’m still under construction. I’m not great. There are so many areas I suck in. But then you’re trying to find staff members to help you, trying to realize what you suck at.” “But the most important thing is love the player. When you really find the good in that dude, that’s it. The guy that’s hardest to love needs love the most. I’m at a point in life where it’s about them. And if you keep it about them…”

Jeter to Murphy... “The Brewers play baseball the right way” …. - Pat Murphy replies … “Guys today don’t understand that!” We have gotten so far away from center as to what winning baseball is and looks like… the younger generation’s focus is on launch angle, spin rates, velocity and you only win by out slugging the opponent! Basically…. Hit more HR than the other team…. Then pimp the HR. Well eyes have been opened. They have to be. It’s now a matter of … if pride will keep the other orgs from following. If they do… our game will skyrocket like never before. It was literally the most beautiful baseball I have seen at the MLB level … electric! @MLBNetwork @MLB @MLBONFOX @nextlevelbb

Excellent video put out by Fox about Bob Uecker Everybody should watch

“It takes a certain kind of person to be able to play on this team. Certain standards you have to play with every day.” Sal Frelick discusses playing for Pat Murphy and the culture he has created in Milwaukee. @Brewers | #WorldSeries

Golf legend Scottie Scheffler was asked about his professional success and he literally does the INVERSE "rich young ruler" from the Bible. This video is worth your time 👇

selfless. excellence. energy. it's what we live by 🔼 #GoFrogs | #FrogballUSA

The Brewers are being celebrated like they invented baseball. They are doing things that have become unusual. They have an old school tough manager who players love playing for. They focus on basic easy to understand basic fundamentals. They have a hitting coach that was an overachieving player for skill that played in the big leagues. They hit the ball the other way. They value putting the ball in play. They adjust their approach based on situation and count. They are not addicted to exit velocity and launch angle bullshit. They bunt and steal bases. They do not have selfish superstars that need to be treated like celebrities. The Brewers simply play the game how it was meant to be played.

Good life lesson from Pat Murphy about how worrying is a "waste of time." @FoulTerritoryTV | #WorldSeries

"That's the goal as hitting coaches, to get guys to believe in themselves because you're not always going to feel great." @Brewers hitting coach Daniel Vogelbach details what makes this Milwaukee lineup so difficult to navigate ahead of Game 2! #WorldSeries

Simple Hitting Hitters What is a productive at bat? I'll give you a hint. It either produces a base runner (you) without an out. or It moves a runner. or It scores a runner. or It drives pitch counts. Yes, you can have a selfish so called quality at bat by definition and it can be non productive. Productive at bats win games. Check your ego at the door and be productive for your team. Mature hitters win games.

JOSH ALLEN IS A MAD MAN

NLCS MVP Jake Bauers shares how letting go of results helped him find a different level of freedom as a competitor. "I think what changed for me this year was I stopped caring about results. I started caring about competing. I started caring about being in the moment and getting out of my own way." Sometimes, the biggest obstacle to performing at your best isn't a lack of preparation or ability. It's the pressure you place on yourself to produce a particular outcome. You become so concerned with what you want to happen that you lose touch with what the moment actually requires. Any performer can unlock a new level when they learn how to be fully invested in the competition without becoming imprisoned by the outcome. 🎥: Fox Sports

Pat Murphy says becoming a father completely changed the way he coached, and now every player he views and coaches as somebody else’s son “It’s got to be real, man. You can’t just say it. You’ve got to live it. When it’s about your kid, when you’re raising kids by yourself, you’re clueless, man. You don’t know what you’re doing. I don’t know what I’m doing. I didn’t have that kind of, my parents were way older than me, so I don’t know how to parent. I don’t know what I’m doing, but it’s really important to me.” “And I started thinking about it like, every kid I coach is somebody’s Kai Joseph. You know what I mean? Every kid I coach, they have parents who love their kid the way I love my kid.” “Wow, I’ve got to be a little mindful how I treat these guys. I’ve got to be a little mindful about, like, it’s my job.” “This profession isn’t about the wins and losses. This profession is about, how do I impact this person?

Pat Murphy did not get a real big league managing job until he was 65 years old. He has won Manager of the Year twice since. This week he swept the Los Angeles Dodgers out of the playoffs. Here is the whole thing. Here is what he said on the podium afterward. "They may have a bunch of Hall of Famers, but we have a bunch of gamers. And the gamers won this week." Now here is how long it took him to get on that podium. He never played a day in the major leagues himself. He was a catcher who signed with the San Francisco Giants and spent four years in the minors without ever getting called up. He was the head coach at Arizona State for fifteen seasons. He won 629 games there and took them to the College World Series four times. Before that he was at Notre Dame and won 318 more. Then it ended. He resigned in the middle of an NCAA investigation, after being told to resign or be fired. Here is the part that usually gets left out. The NCAA found him innocent of the violations. What they actually reprimanded him for was his attitude toward their investigators. They called it cavalier. Here is how he describes that stretch. "I was a college coach forever, and then I had this huge injustice happen, and I thought, Why me?" And then this, about himself. "My ego was involved a great deal more than it should have been." So here is what he did next, at 51 years old. He went to the minor leagues. Eugene, Oregon. Tucson. El Paso. Nearly five years riding buses in the low minors after fifteen years running one of the best programs in the country. San Diego gave him the interim job and he went 42 and 54 in 96 games. They did not keep him. "I did everything wrong five times." So he took a job as somebody's bench coach in Milwaukee. He did that for eight years. Then Craig Counsell left for Chicago, and the Brewers handed it to the 65 year old. Here is what happened next. Manager of the Year. Then Manager of the Year again. 97 wins last season, 103 this one. And a sweep of a Los Angeles roster built to never lose a series like this. Now the honest part. He was not some nobody they found in a parking lot. He was one of the best college coaches alive before any of this, and the Brewers handed him a roster Counsell had already built. But he was 51 when he had to start over in the low minors, and 65 before anybody gave him a team of his own for a full season. Christian Yelich said it takes a certain kind of player to play for him. It took a certain kind of man to still be waiting at 65.

David Hamilton bunted in his first at-bat today because Pat Murphy told him to. The reasoning? Drop a bunt down and their pitchers won’t respect you the same the following at-bats. He would get pitches to hit. Hamilton followed with an RBI single and home run.

Typical gold from Pat Murphy: