Milwaukee's Pat Murphy first to win 3 straight Manager of Year awards. Will Venable takes AL honor

When setting a date for hip replacement surgery, Milwaukee Brewers manager Pat Murphy made sure it would be after the World Series.What he didn't consider was when the NL Manager of the Year winner would be announced.That's why Murphy was in a hospital bed Tuesday night recovering from his operation when he became the first skipper from either league to win the award three years in a row.“I've got nothing to do. I’m just sitting here,” Murphy quipped at the end of a call with reporters.The award came less than two weeks after the Brewers won their first World Series title, and a day after the manager's surgery in Milwaukee.“The doctor gave me some dates and I just picked a date one day, and I had no idea that it was going to coincide. I wasn't thinking in those terms," said Murphy, who turns 68 on Nov. 28. “I was just thinking about what we had, task at hand. I mean, I probably picked it a month ago and obviously I picked it after the World Series was done, but I didn’t know we were go