'It was about each other': The Brewers and Pat Murphy admire the masterpiece they built

Everything came together for the 2026 Brewers, and they celebrated their first World Series title Wednesday night at Tropicana Field Before materials are collected. Before architects render blueprints. Before the site gets chosen. There must be vision. The building of something, anything monumental, is less about machinery and labor. But about inspiration. It's the ultimate binding force. Human ingenuity powered by a bent for progress, a hope for excellence. It's the purpose that fuels the willingness to build. And shared purpose produces the buy-in. The work in progress that was the Brewers, a project eight years in the making dating back to Christian Yelich's arrival in 2018, was finally ready for the ultimate ribbon-cutting on Wednesday night at Tropicana Field.

An unveiling of their finished work. It took just five games to deconstruct the Rays. But it took eight years to build a team worthy of this moment. And it took the Brewers 57 years to find the right construction workers to deliver the franchise's first-ever World Series championship. "They decided to be uncommon," manager Pat Murphy told CBS Sports following his team's 4-1 Game 5 win. "And when they made that decision that it was about each other — when it's about each other and it's a team, you can accomplish anything." Yelich, the 34-year-old captain, is at the