Wild couple of days to unpack. The Astros were heavily featured throughout the break; they had six representatives, Alex Bregman was named All-Stars MVP, Bregman and Springer went back-to-back to ice the game, and the team added more hardware to a growing list of accolades - the ESPY’s Best Team of 2018.
Josh Hader’s All-Star break was the polar opposite of the Astros. In a bizarre twist on Tuesday night, an internet sleuth exposed a laundry list of racist and homophobic tweets Hader had apparently posted as a seventeen year-old, as Hader was in the midst of getting shelled for three runs in his first ever All-Star appearance.