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Whicker: Brewers-Dodgers, a David Goliath NLCS and David owns home field advantage

“Seven years ago the Los Angeles Dodgers and Milwaukee Brewers were in this same place.

The National League Championship Series would start in Milwaukee. Those Brewers had Brandon Woodruff, Corbin Burnes and Josh Hader on the mound. Christian Yelich was the Most Valuable Player. Ryan Braun was a former MVP. Lorenzo Cain was a state-of-the-art centre fielder.

In no way were they underdogs.”

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Whicker: Patches O’Houlihan Murphy has Brewers rolling with Drumstick, Clifford, Batman and Rock

“Sixteen years ago he was unemployed and tainted twice over. College baseball coaches don’t become major league managers, or even major league coaches. Fired college baseball coaches, especially brazen ones, don’t become much of anything.

Today Pat Murphy is not only on the verge of winning the National League Manager of the Year award, as he did in 2024. He has restored the very role of the baseball manager, the trail boss, the theme composer, the man Out Front.”

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Elliott: Dahl the man in the crowd, behind Blue Jays cameras for 34 years

As the camera zoomed in on the crowd, during the Pittsburgh Pirates-Blue Jays game on Tuesday, Sportsnet’s Dan Shulman spoke about former Blue Jays cameraman Chris Dahl, who gave you pictures of the Blue Jays for 34 seasons. A Pittsburgh resident, Dahl wore a Blue Jays jersey and a Pirates cap to last night’s game. All the Dahl talk made Bob Elliott think of this piece he wrote back in 2016.

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