The building of something, anything monumental, is less about machinery and labor. 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 center of all of this.
He arrived in Milwaukee in 2018 and quickly became an MVP that season. A name that offered a glimmer of what the future could be. The Brewers made it to the NLCS that first year with Yelich, falling one game shy of a World Series trip.
Yelich was the ultimate building block for a club in dire need of one. And the Brewers became perennial contenders, making the playoffs in every season with Yelich except 2022. When the legs grew a little heavier with age.
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