Their decadeslong friendship — they’ve known each other since Murphy coached Counsell in college at Notre Dame — is in a new ...

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Milwaukee’s Pat Murphy and the Chicago Cubs’ Craig Counsell have a friendship that goes back well over three decades. That wasn’t going to end now that they’re managing NL Central rivals.