Brewers manager uses World celebration to shade horsest Yankees to star player

Win a title, rip the Yankees.For the second time in three years, the Bronx Bombers are being mocked by the reigning champions with Brewers manager Pat Murphy taking pot shots after winning the World Series on Wednesday.While celebrating the 4-1 Game 5 win over the Rays to claim the franchise’s first title with ex-Yankee Jake Bauers, Murphy referenced the slugger’s time with the 2023 Bombers.“You’re going to be a rich f–ker, but just remember when you were on that horses–t Yankees team and you guys were all playing for yourself, just remember, say ‘This is the way we used do it,” Murphy appears to say after Bauers presented him with the ball from the final out in Game 5.Bauers is headed towards free agency after winning the NLCS MVP in a sweep of the Dodgers.Warning: Graphic LanguageBauers spent just one season in The Bronx and it came during the worst one of the Aaron Judge era, the injury-filled 2023 season that resulted in an 82-80 record and the only season that did not feature a postseason berth since Judge became a regular in 2017.The Yankees traded Bauers to the Brewers after he posted a .693 OPS across 84 games in a move that has worked out quite well for the NL Central squad.That Murphy said that team was “playing for yourself” is certainly an interesting wrinkle, especially since he would not have first-hand knowledge, and his comments in totality add to the notion that some in baseball do not view the Yankees in the highest standing.After the Yankees finished the 2024 World Series with a blunder-filled Game 5 loss that clinched the Dodgers’ title, several LA players called out their opponent.Longtime Yankees rival — and ex-Red Sox — Joe Kelly particularly rubbed salt in the wound.“We had seen it every single game just let them throw the ball to the infield, they can’t make a play,” Kelly said at the time.“… It was a mismatch from the get-go.

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