(Hat-tip to my anonymous friend and Deadspin.)
Josh Hader pitched in tonight's All-Star Game, and gave up a key 3-run home run.
That said, the Milwaukee Brewer is probably going to be the center of the two slowest days in American sports (unless you're a fan of British golf, and "EIGHTEEN FUCKING TIMES!!", like Robin Williams did in a classic comedy rant on golf -- God rest his soul...), and it's a bunch of people who probably will be the lead of this story, in actuality, that are why.
During the game, someone was perusing Josh Hader's Twitter account, and found numerous tweets from 2011 with the N-word splattered all over them, as well as several homophobic rants.
Josh was 17 years old at the time, and didn't enter the minors until the following year.
He should be fined and strictly monitored on his social media for a while. Put the fine to relevant rights charities.
And that's it.
I'm as hardcore on the subject as many, but people need to understand:
He was 17.
This was seven years ago.
He has apologized and walked back.
He is prepared to pay whatever penalty.
But, that said: There is a larger story to this, and this lead probably is going to get buried.
Someone only found this because Hader was in the All-Star Game tonight. Is it now clear that every player in that game probably had a similar bunch of Twitter detectives poring through years of their Tweets, hoping to make themselves famous?
Hader's hateful comments are terrible. Let's make no doubt of this.
He was 17, it was seven years ago.
(EDIT TO ADD IMPORTANT NOTE: Someone had claimed to find a 2016 Tweet from Hader slamming the Trayvon Martin protestors -- the Tweet has, however, been confirmed a fake photoshop by the idiot who actually shopped it.)
What we should, however, begin to wonder is how many other players got investigated tonight by someone trying to make themselves famous?
Be careful out there, athletes. Nothing goes away on the Internet.
Take that from someone who knows.
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