Brewers Manager Craig Counsell Shifts to Cubs, Impact on Team

  • 8 months ago
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00:03 It almost doesn't matter, I know it's crazy to say, what the Brewers end up doing.
00:07 I just know that come September, they're gonna be in it in some way.
00:11 I don't know how, I don't know where, and I don't know who's gonna be on the team,
00:14 but they just have this sort of plan that is executed.
00:17 And I do wanna start though with the manager, as you mentioned,
00:21 because I don't know how that will be different.
00:24 You mentioned Pat Murphy comes in and
00:25 actually he's got so much familiarity with the organization and with the team.
00:29 But that was a pretty big hammer to drop, I thought, in the offseason.
00:33 Maybe the biggest one yet with Craig Councils had so
00:36 much success ends up leaving and going to the Cubs.
00:39 What did you make of it at the time?
00:41 Did you see that coming?
00:42 Did you hear anything about it?
00:43 Cuz not a lot of people did.
00:44 >> I don't think anybody saw that Craig was gonna go to Chicago.
00:49 I think that there were a lot of people that thought that Craig might leave
00:52 Milwaukee, which was hard to believe, right?
00:54 He could have had a blank check and written whatever he wanted to say in
00:56 Milwaukee and be ten minutes away from the ballpark.
01:00 But at the end of the day, he got everything he wanted in Chicago, right?
01:02 He's got more resources, more financial run around to play with, right?
01:08 In Chicago with the Ricketts family and
01:10 the way that they run the organization, he can stay close to home.
01:13 He can get a little apartment on the lake if he wants to in Chicago and
01:17 then drive home after day games back to Wisconsin.
01:19 So and he can still watch his kids grow up.
01:21 He's got two daughters that are in high school.
01:23 He's got two sons that are playing in the Big Ten Conference,
01:25 one at Michigan and one at Minnesota.
01:28 So he got everything he wanted.
01:30 And I think he reset what managers are gonna be making for the future too.
01:34 He's the highest paid manager since I saw Joe Torre in 2007.
01:37 So he's worth it.
01:39 He's a great manager.
01:40 He's gonna do a great job in Chicago.
01:42 I think that when he comes to Milwaukee for Memorial Day for the first time,
01:46 we'll see what their reaction's like.
01:47 I think a lot of people at the beginning would have maybe booed, right?
01:51 If the Brewers opened up at home against Chicago,
01:53 it might have been a little different story.
01:55 But you'll have six, seven weeks of a major league baseball season to kinda let
01:59 things chill out a little bit before those two teams play Milwaukee for
02:03 the first time.
02:04 >> Yeah.
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