LOS ANGELES – It’s become a Spring Training tradition for old friends Andrew Friedman and Matt Arnold, who go back to the mid-2000s as young executives with the plucky Rays. Every March, they meet for dinner at The Gladly in the Biltmore neighborhood of Phoenix.

And they always invite a third: Brewers manager Pat Murphy.

“Obviously those are two great baseball minds,” Murphy said. “I think they just want me there to laugh at me.”

Just as plausible is that Friedman, 48, and Arnold, 46, have been friends so long, they’ve run out of things to talk about.

“We go back a long way and we’ve been through a lot,” Arnold said.

“I've known Matt Arnold for a long time. I think what him and his team have done is incredible – not surprising,” Friedman said. “The attention to detail, the way the ros

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