Brewers All-Star pitcher’s racist, homophobic tweets resurface
Hader's gonna hate.
Josh Hader is the latest athlete to have vulgar tweets from his younger years resurface on social media.
Moments after the Brewers pitcher gave up a home run in the All-Star Game on Tuesday, screenshots of racist, sexist and homophobic tweets from the then-17, -18-year-old made the rounds on Twitter.
Hader's Twitter account, which has just under 17,000 followers, was made private afterward.
Hader apologized and said the tweets do not reflect his current views.
“I was young, immature and stupid,” Hader said of the tweets. “There is no excuse for that to happen.”
Members of his family who were proudly wearing his AllStar replica jersey during the 24-year-old's first Midsummer Classic appearance took the uniforms off and were given blank ones without the now-disgraced name on the back, according to Yahoo Sports' Jeff Passan.
MLB will consider releasing a statement Wednesday, according to chief legal officer Dan Halem, per the LA Times.
“I don't give a damn, i'm a triply n-----, f--- my lungs, f--- my liver,” reads one tweet from October 2011, quoting the song “Durr She Go” from rapper Juicy J, released during the same year.
“KKK,” reads another in November 2011, which is followed up two months later by a “white power” tweet.
“I hate gay people,” reads one post from August 2011.
Most of the tweets were sent between 2011 and 2012.
Athletes have learned the hard way that the internet never forgets.
Josh Allen saw offensive tweets he posted in high school come to light a day before being selected 7th overall by the Bills in the NFL Draft.
“If I could go back in time, I would never have done this in a heartbeat,” Allen told ESPN at the time.
Shortly after helping lead Villanova to a national championship, Donte DiVincenzo also had highly questionable tweets reemerge.
The 21-year-old, who was later selected by the Bucks in the NBA Draft, deleted the tweets and admitted it was his Twitter account, but didn't “remember doing that.”