Milwaukee Brewers reliever Josh Hader gave up a three-run home run in the All-Star Game, but that was the least of his worries Tuesday night, when old tweets exposed the left-handed pitcher as a racist and homophobic.
As Tuesday night’s exhibition game went into extra innings, Hader had his Twitter account set to private after old tweets were dug up.
Uhhhhh, @jhader17 has some interesting tweets from 2012 👀 pic.twitter.com/d7pyTaMOdh
— Cub Fan Javy Man (@RizzoIsCaptain) July 18, 2018
Okay, well, now winning the division is a little bit personal. Did Hader pitch at your Pride Night in June, @Brewers? pic.twitter.com/k5Ghm1gOQm
— Kelly Wallace (@kellyawallace) July 18, 2018
RIP to Josh Hader’s career (a thread). pic.twitter.com/hJmD83DcWV
— Kevin Jenkins (KJen) (@kjen1327) July 18, 2018
— Kevin Jenkins (KJen) (@kjen1327) July 18, 2018
— Kevin Jenkins (KJen) (@kjen1327) July 18, 2018
— Kevin Jenkins (KJen) (@kjen1327) July 18, 2018
— Kevin Jenkins (KJen) (@kjen1327) July 18, 2018
Hey @brewers this yall’s man? pic.twitter.com/2NpOCWtUfj
— Cub Fan Javy Man (@RizzoIsCaptain) July 18, 2018
Sure, some of the tweets are just childish and fall into the category of, boy those are pretty embarrassing and you should probably delete those, while other ones where Hader feels really comfortable tossing out the N-word and expressing his hatred for gay people falls into the category of simply being a hateful piece of shit person.
Most of these tweets came when Hader was 17-years-old, and it really doesn’t matter that they were seven years ago. At the age you know the difference between what’s right and wrong, so don’t give me the bullshit that he was just a kid in high school. He was in high school and Josh Hader was a piece of shit person then and most likely feels the same today.
Some members of Josh Hader’s family, wearing his All-Star replica jersey, have taken them off and been given generic jerseys without his name on the back.
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) July 18, 2018
Also, from his girlfriend.
Cute couple! pic.twitter.com/42ORNCQLhW
— how absolutely dare you (@dick_brooks72) July 18, 2018
Lovely.
By the way, the whole, “I use gay to mean dumb/stupid” excuse doesn’t really fly either and you know what I bet a lot of people used to do that including myself when I was younger. Still doesn’t make it any less wrong. Ignorant then and ignorant now.
So, this…
@RealEricStiene well that's some gay shit
— Kyle Schwarber (@kschwarb12) April 26, 2011
Also bad.
All you can hope for is that people evolve and aren’t still being ignorant. And that goes for Hader too. He apologized Tuesday night saying he was immature and stupid and I hope he really did learn from it.
