By now you’ve read, watched video of, and bawled your eyes out over that emotional letter from the late Bob Uecker to the current Milwaukee Brewers. Brewers manager Pat Murphy read the letter out loud to the players following their playoff-clinching Saturday night. “Howdy boys, never a doubt you would get this invitation,” the letter began. “You did it by believing. Really miss you guys and I wish I was there. Things are good. The God Almighty picked me to be on this team up here, albeit I’m the third catcher.”
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Pat Murphy read an emotional letter from Bob Uecker as the Brewers celebrated clinching the postseason pic.twitter.com/5j6sJCPmb7
— Milwaukee Brewers (@Brewers) September 14, 2025
But on Monday, news trickled out that, well, the letter wasn’t actually something Uecker wrote and left behind before his death in January. Instead, the letter was something Murphy wrote himself, in the spirit of Uecker.
According to MLB.com: “The club clarified after the celebration that while the letter carried Uecker’s trademark heart and humor, it was written by Murphy, who read it to all those gathered in the clubhouse following the stirring walk-off win.”
Yeah, the fact that the letter had a reference to the Brewers’ “best record in baseball—the best road record in baseball” seemed a little odd to us, too.
Rewatching the video, Murphy’s introduction is a tip-off that the letter isn’t meant to be taken literally. “I got a letter today from Ueck, and before we toast I want to read it,” Murphy says. Nowhere does he say that the letter was written and left behind by Uecker before his death. It’s a fanciful “letter from heaven” or something. Oh well.
Maybe Murphy and the Brewers social media team should have been more clear? Maybe, but whatever: GO BREWERS. WE STILL MISS YOU, UECK.
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