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If you ask around about who Pat Murphy is, you might get 100 different answers. To some, he’s the first-year manager of the Milwaukee Brewers who finally got his shot in the big leagues. To others, he’s the longtime successful college baseball coach at Notre Dame and Arizona State, who even befriended Daniel Ruettiger, better known as simply “Rudy.”
And then, every once in a while, you get an answer you don’t expect.
“He’s Patches O’Houlihan from ‘Dodgeball,’” Brewers slugger Christian Yelich said with the biggest smile.