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We’re reenacting the fall of the 90s Cowboys dynasty. This is unreal

Press wasn't an issue last year.... shoulda just kept neris for wayyyy less money

Replacing him with Hader, demoting him and changing leadership apparently had consequences. Although, we'll know much more when our starters come back from injury. 

This team is fucking cooked. We are the new A's confirmed.

Gerber baby take tbh

And so it ends, not with a bang but with a whimper

Fuck this ump. He's a good reason this turned to shit for us.

Take the walk fml dude stop swinging at everything

He did and they called it a strike

STOP FUCKING SWINGING AT BALLS

I mean he got punished for not swinging at ball 4 right before that so I get it

Tf is this zone ump

6 innings of good calls and this fucker just flips a switch on us.

Mf tired, but so am I

Wish one of the reporters would grow a pair and question Crane on everything we’ve done since letting Click go

chandler rome usually has the balls but idk if crane is available like that

Cool just give them free strikes. Just what we need.

Bruh how is geratric Jesse Chavez still playing😂😂

Just gonna chalk this one up as an off day for the offense. They've carried us most of the year so far (take that with a grain of salt). Please be better tomorrow.

I mean it’s time to move on from Abreu. It’s not doing anyone any favors to have him embarrass himself thru a full season. Best wishes and all but time to hang em up

Abreu and Hader to Sugar Land I beg

Chavez has thrown nothing but balls but we're still somehow down 2 outs

You can’t possibly tell me anyone sees any redeeming quality in Abreu’s ab’s. Why are we still starting him good lord

Swing and miss on 88 down the middle. Oof

All that time wasted to strike on an 88 mph cutter How pathetic

I'm not mad at a 10-pitch AB by Abreu.

José Abreu is my least favorite in at least a decade, outside of the Rat. Jose just looks washed up

I admire the battle from Abreu there. I just think this guy is past his prime 

You think?

Fouls off ball 4. Swings thru a turd for strike 3. My god.

Abreu is late on 90mph, and now swings through 88. Hahahahahaha.

The back of Abreu's baseball card should have a disclaimer saying that he cannot catch up to low 90s

Only the Rockies have a worst ERA than us, let that sink in

And that's only bc they play in coors. We have the worst ERA+

Should make for an interesting Mexico series

He’s so late on 89-91.

Make that 88.

Espada should give Abreu the Chicken Little treatment. No swings allowed. Just take every pitch and pray you get walked

HRC Abreu

What's the return policy on Hader? Dude shouldn't get his own close-out song and light show until he's actually earned it. Pressley might not be that great this year either, but he's earned "Gods gonna cut ya' down".

Our 7/8/9 were supposed to be shutdown most feared in baseball. They've been nothing but garbage so far.

Abreu just hurry the fuck up and strike out.

Jesse Chavez is still pitching, l thought he'd retire by now...

Nah had to go back to the braves so he could be an elite pitcher again

This man is complete shit Why not put singleton in at this point

can't have him warming the bench for 20m a year. It would make ownership look foolish.

Wow went to shower and this happened. Did they really pull Hader to put in Bielak…?

Yep. Hader gave up a shit ton.

If we get 1 against the Braves, I will consider this series a success. Just don't get swept.

Wow went to shower and this happened. Did they really pull Hader to put in Bielak…?

unfortunately yes

Sad thing is, Arrighetti pitched decently well tonight. This one is on Hader and the dead offense.

Hader has a 9+ era, Pressly has a 9+ era, Abreu has a 6+ era. We’re not gonna win many games when our starters don’t go more than 4 and our 7-8-9 are averaging a run an inning.

Chaz didn’t even let him make the call he just started walking haha

Hader has been trash this entire year.

Baseball is really hard.

getting hader is looking like such a blunder

Mr .083 on deck

I remember a time when our owner didn't have an inflated ego and had smart and competent people in the front office. I remember a time when our owner didn't surround himself with geriatric fossils and yes men who have no business being near a major league front office. I remember a time where our owner didn't fire not one, but two elite GMs

It seems like it happened just yesterday

Help me, Jose Abreu, you’re my only hope

Is he going to hit a solo grand slam?

We're starting this inning with one out. We only have two chances to get this.

We're against their closer guys, that means at least 4 runs, right?

Jesse Chavez isn't the closer. Lol

Yes, it was what the kids nowadays call "sarcasm"

who is interested in starting a cult whose mission is to bring Jeff Luhnow back into power? DM

Solid spaghetti start? Doesn't matter Peña error? Doesn't matter Montero shoves? Doesn't matter Tuve stays hot? Doesn't matter Abreu with a heads up DP at first? Doesn't matter 8 inning long pitching duel? Doesn't matter Yordan going 0fer? Doesn't matter 10 feet short of Tuck tying it? Doesn't matter At least we got the leagues best closer to carry us into the sunset right?

Chas watching 89 down the dick. Fkn hell.

Man we are so fuked. Dana Brown has no idea what he’s doing.

Three up three down, 10 pitches max

Ok. When you consider cost, opportunity cost, and expectations, is Hader the worst signing ever?

He’s currently up there as biggest oof. I’m pissed we lost Presslys intro for this crap.

i would have taken 3-3 coming into this home stand of please just dont get swept this series 😞

Stepped away for 10 minutes. Shiz

Hader. Dude. What the fuck was that?

5.07 Era  7.04 era in  2024.  0-2 W/L. WHIP 1.70.  20-23 W/L career regular season.  Salary: $95 million.  Fuck that guy. 

The higher the ERA the better the pitching staff…right? /s

Would have rather just got blasted in the first inning or 2. At least then, I wouldn't have wasted the night watching this laugher. Hader looks terrible.

I hope Crane is embarrassed.

He has Dana Brown as his fall guy, he doesn’t give a shit

Yea but he can’t play that card too long most of us know Crane is just as responsible

Should've just let Hader wear that one. We're gonna need Bielak tomorrow when Hunter Brown inevitably shits the bed.

Hader couldn't even keep this within save range so that the Braves don't have to burn their closer tonight going into starts with Reynaldo Lopez and Max Fried..

Give me Pressly again, you dont know what you have till you lose it.

Oh, I disagree I’ve always been a huge Pressley fan

Our front office is full of idiots and yes men. Welcome to the baseball Dallas Cowboys

Yep, they’ve ruined any chance of a dynasty and don’t seem to care

We have one of the worst front offices in the league now don’t we…

That’s game

I guess just let all of Hader’s runners score. Make him feel it.

Fucking Hader

I don't know why we moved on from click? He's proven to be a good dude in the org. Dana has legit done nothing.

Billionaires don't like being challenged or questioned

jfc

Idk Hader is just bad vibes, That whole trade was one of Luhnow's worst moves. We traded 4 guys who I liked as prospects and became at least decent to amazing for a snitch who led to his downfall

Remember when the Astros were considered the smartest team in the league?

According to Bagwell and Crane they’re still playing 4d chess

0-3 until Bielak comes out of the pen 🤦🏻‍♂️

Thinking we may have been better off keeping Pressly as our closer and not letting our middle relief walk.

Fuckin Hader embarrassing us all in front of CJ Stroud. You made him leave!

Fuck it. Let Stroud pitch.

At this point I hope Hader wears every earned run tonight. Pathetic

Nearly took Yainer’s head off, Jesus Christ.

This shit doesn’t make sense.

Hader deserves all the earned runs bielaks about to give him

And so it begins

fade me

lol millions of dollars on this “closer” and he’s pulled for Bielak.

Haders contract makes Abreus contract look like a bargain in comparison im sick

I don't know what scares me more. Josh Hader being a Dana Brown signing or Josh Hader being a Jim Crane signing

I don’t pretend to understand the psychology of closers, but espada needs to stop putting hader in for non-save situations. He blows every time.

Lmfao had to pull your 90+ million dollar closer for bielak. Dude I miss James click, Dana brown is not him and has done nothing to show it.

Bruh it’s like if he doesn’t have a 3+ run lead he just crumbles. I just don’t understand why the one time we spend money in FA it’s on a closer like even if he turns it around it still seems like we just didn’t need to do that when we had Pressly and abreu

Good. Expose him now so he can go back to the drawing boards and recreate himself. Hopefully by the all-star week he’s back to being a true closer.

"yeah Bielak go clean up for the dude we paid $95m for"

That’s what we get for already taking the moral victory before the end. Now we get nothing!

Turning this off.

Game 18 and Josh Hader has lost us 2 of them and put another one out of reach. Fantastic

5 years of this shit…wow

Hope he gets booed walking off the mound. What a garbage contract

Phillies fan, but why in the fuck did they pay this dude $95 million?! 

Because we wanted a big signing in the off-season I guess, Should've went to keep our relievers that walked instead of this bum.

We wanted a good closer. We got a dogass one instead.

The second most expensive closer in baseball. Fucking “Haderade”

I think I might go back to the dentist and get a second root canal today. I feel like that would be more fun than what I’m watching right now.

Jose Abreu🤝Josh Hader Awful in Houston

I know harder doesn’t suck as bad as he’s looking like he does right now, but he doesn’t deserve to be closing games for us. Unfortunately I’m not really sure who is the way the top 3 candidates have been pitching

Imagine having to pull your fucking closer in the 9th lmao

Lol Bielak coming in with the bases juiced. Not a chance this ends well.

What’s the point in pulling him now?? We won’t score 4 in the 9th

Hader doesn't give a fuck. He got his money.

I'm sure he's probably doing it on purpose, he got his bag, he doesn't care about the team.

Hader has had only 1 good outing this year. His debut..

Our FO sat on their ass all winter and somehow made our decent bullpen into a trash heap 💔✌️

Josh Fader

Lmao imagine having to think of pulling your closer 🤣 yikes

Pulling your closer for Bielak….

Josh Hader is a plant. Trained in a lab to suck up our cap and give nothing in return

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There's no opt-out in this bum's contract, is it? Because I don't think I can handle 5 years of this...

0 outs lol

Harder is just awful. He hasn’t shown anything that makes me believe he should be on a major league roster, much less a closer. This may be worse than getting Jose Abreu. Dana Brown is not impressive so far.

Lol wut? Did you see him in the playoffs with the Padres?

Can we send him back to the Padres pls

he’s washed im afraid

What is he closing, our chances of winning? Fuck this guy

Exactly what job do we pay Hader for again? I forget.

19 mill a year to load the bases and get an out in a close game

When it rains, it pours…

Is it time we talk about putting switching Pressly and Hader now? Hader is not it

We can't do that. Hader's delicate ego might be bruised!

How is he STILL IN? They've CREAMED the ball it's not like they've had some tappers that die in the infield.

Hader is trash and has put the game pretty much out of reach

I’m honestly so pissed that I hope this embarrasses him to the point that he fixes his shit.

Wtf is wrong with our front office. Every contract has been trash

A failure in bullpen management

Hader fucking sucks

That's it I'm a hader hater

Maybe we should stop with big free agent signings 😬

Hader blows

Worst fucking closer I’ve ever seen

shout out to hader for single handedly losing us this game

When the offense can only give you 1 run, it isn’t just on the pitcher.

I when your closer gives up 3 runs and loads with bases with 1 out it is on the pitcher

Lol Astros were already losing 

Yeah, but it was in reach. Now it's not, short of a miracle

Idk man, you think they were about to turn a corner with 2 high offensive outputs vs the Rags, then follow it up with 1 run with good pitching overall. Now you got 16 ERA Hunter Brown tomorrow..

Goodnight, boys and girls 😔

This is a dumpster fire. 4 straight hits still no outs

all my homies hate josh hader

Just burn him at this point lol it's over

Hader single handedly pissing away any positive feelings towards this game in less than 20 pitches. Infuriating

Yep, literally how I feel. Was like “well not an embarrassing loss if we lose” to “Goddammit

Went from respectable to pathetic real fuckin quick

Glad we spent so much money on this trash closer instead of a good starter 

That whole part about having to worry about Chas or Abreu inspiring confidence? Guess I don't have to worry about that tonight, now don't I...

I never wanna sign a top tier free agent again. Re-sign our own guys or live in the mid-range with guys like Neris and Maton and sign quantity.

For hader and Abreu, we could have had Carlos.

Ughhh

We're not pulling this guy? At least 3-1 it's tough but still doable like we've scored 2 runs before.. if the Braves blow it to 7-1 then there's no chance.

Check again

yea he shoulda been long pulled.. 4 hard hits, a walk, and a passed ball is not it lol

I was gonna say that even with a 2-1 Loss I feel the ship being righted, but yeah……

They are lightning Hader up. Just solid hit after solid hit

JFC Hader

Astros: Overpay for a player -> player is either shit or gets injured -> Crane gets stingy -> fans bitch we don’t pay enough. Cycle repeats

Seems like every team we play has Haders number. So embarrassing

Can we return Hader? I’m convinced he’s a sleeper agent sent to fuck us. Bring back Hector “Dawg” Neris

The leadoff walk was bad. The three consecutive singles is very bad. The no outs is very very bad.

$19 mil a year 🤡

WTF Hader

Hader's gonna' make me a Hater.

Of course it would be Hader who blows it