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Governor Greg Abbott jinxes Astros with premature tweet?

With the Astros leading 6-2 and just six outs away from advancing to the American League Championship Series, the office of Texas Governor Greg Abbott thought it would be a good idea to tweet out congratulations to the Astros.

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Such a bad idea.

Shortly after the tweet – which was quickly deleted – the Kansas City Royals rallied for five runs in the eighth inning to take the lead.

Abbott has two Twitter profiles – both verified by Twitter. One of them – @GregAbbott_TX – is his billed as “Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s Personal Twitter Feed.