Pat Murphy isn’t pretending the pressure of a World Series run is some mystical force hanging over him. The Milwaukee Brewers manager says he handles it by stripping it down to the job in front of him, and by keeping his own ego out of the way.
Ahead of Game 5 against the Tampa Bay Rays, Murphy was asked how he deals with the strain of trying to guide Milwaukee to its first World Series championship in franchise history, with the Brewers up 3-1 in the Fall Classic. His answer was blunt and revealing.
“I do a lot of self-talk. I'm just like, ‘Hey, you got a job to do, this is not about you.
So, if you're nervous, that's about you.'” Murphy said.
“‘You have a job to do, you have to serve right now, you have to serve.' You know what I mean?
I think if you keep doing that, you'll notice, like, I don't notice a lot of things that go on in the stands… If you don't like pressure, you gotta pick another job, you know what I mean?
“And is it real pressure, or is it more your ego and what other people think and that kind of stuff? When you think about the real jobs in the world here today, people that are going out and going into a fire, you know, saving a building or saving people, or the first responders… You just say to yourself, ‘Wait a minute, this is a responsibility.' I try to keep it as something of service, and that's it.”
Murphy made it clear he sees the moment through that lens: responsibility, not spectacle. For him, it comes down to serving the team and staying locked on the task rather than the noise around it.
The Brewers and Rays meet at 8 PM ET on Wednesday night in Game 5 of the World Series.
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