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A long winter may still be covering Wisconsin, but for the first time in months, the crack of wooden bats filled television sets around the state, marking the return of Brewers baseball.

Hi, Brewers fans! I’m Matt Trueblood. I wanted to take a minute to say hello, because hopefully, we’ll be seeing a lot of each other in the coming weeks and months. I’m joining Brewer Fanatic in a writing and semi-editorial role, with the goal of helping this community continue to grow and thrive as the best Brewers destination online.

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Hello, forum!  Welcome to the All Star Break edition of Forum Friday.  And based upon the Brewers weekend series against the Giants, the break may have come at the right time.

Welcome to the first presentation of our community awards! A few times a year, we take a moment to recognize the community participants who make this site a great place to talk Brewers. Here are our inaugural winners.

Good Friday morning, forum!  Sorry this is a bit late, but a power outage last night has pushed Forum Friday later into Friday morning than usual.

Milwaukee went 3-3 this past forum week, remaining 10-games over .500 and three games clear of the Cards with three games left before the All Star Break.  Last week included a rough outing from All Star Josh Hader against the Twins, in which he gave up a three-run home run to take his third loss of the year.  With all those threes out of the way, let's get stuck in.

Greetings, forum.  This week was full of unlikely outcomes among the Crew's 3-3 record.  It started with the Brewers scoring 19-runs against the Pirates and it ended with a loss in which Josh Hader faltered for the second time in three days.  In between was a 10-inning win against the Cubs which makes as good a case as any that technology can do way better calling balls and strikes than a human can.  In spite of a week that was less than ideal, the Brewers actually stretched their lead to three games over the Cards.

Well, everyone but Nashville can't wait to get back home again - a team who clearly does not care where or who they play right now. Give them a baseball. Watch them win.

With the DSL and ACL men taking their rest day, it was the four Brewers' upper-level affiliates back on the diamond continuing their collective road series.  RHP Dylan File was dealing in Columbus, RHP Israel Puello took the hill for Wisconsin and had a fantastic second start at High-A, TJ Shook got shook up by a grand salami turning a lead upside down, and RHP Jeferson Figueroa lost his dominance in the fourth inning. Let's get into the report!

Greetings, forum.  When last we talked two weeks ago, the Brewers were in the midst of a rough patch and had fallen out of first place for the first time since April.  Since June 16, Milwaukee has gone 9-3 and now stands 11 games over .500 and 1.5 games ahead of the Cards.  The old adage that "Baseball is a marathon and not a sprint" is as true as ever.  As we near the mid-way point of the season, the Crew are well positioned to make a playoff run.  And eventually one of those runs will pay off with a championship, right?

Like many Brewers fans of a certain age, the ’82 season cemented my childhood love of baseball in general, and the Brewers in particular.  I had been a fan of the game for as far back as I can remember, but there was just something special about that team.  Perhaps it was that we had been watching them grow together through the past few seasons, and all of the names were like old familiar friends.  Molitor. Yount. Coop. Oglivie. Stormin’ Gorman. Simba. Caldwell. Rollie.