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MILWAUKEE – Cubs manager Craig Counsell and Brewers manager Pat Murphy don’t talk as much as they did when they shared a dugout as manager and bench coach in Milwaukee.
“I don’t sit next to him for multiple hours in a day,” Counsell quipped before a game between their two teams. “That made it a little easier to talk.”
Their decades-long friendship – they’ve known each other since Murphy coached Counsell in college at Notre Dame – is in a new stage.
“It’s changed in that we’re competitors instead of teammates,” Counsell said.