Nba epic moments8/14/2023 ![]() And don’t forget Bruce Maxwell, the A’s catcher who in 2017 became the first MLB player to join the kneeling anthem protests started by former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick. The reverse boycott surely rated nods of approval from the ghosts of Oakland take-no-guffers like Bill Russell, Frank Robinson and Curt Flood. The reverse boycott wasn’t on the epic level of San Jose State’s Tommie Smith and John Carlos raising black-gloved fists on the victory podium at the ’68 Olympics, but it tapped into that same fierce spirit of defiance. The night will go down as one of the great protest moments in the history of the Bay Area, long an epicenter of pushback against abuse of power. The entire evening, from suiting up in “SELL” T-shirts in the parking lot before the game, to the postgame barrage of litter onto the field, was unprecedented - and cool as hell. It echoed around the big concrete bowl, creating a row-row-row-your-boat outrage in the round. Then Jose Siri doubled to left, triggering the end to the silence and cueing the chant of “Sell! The! Team!” The chant swelled to the level of a lion’s roar in a phone booth. ![]() ![]() A dozen or so braying fools shouted during the silence, but they couldn’t kill the eerie vibe created by nearly 30,000 raucous fans going pin-drop quiet. As instructed via handouts, the crowd went silent as A’s reliever Hogan Harris came set to pitch. ![]() The shining moment came at the start of the fifth inning of Tuesday night’s Rays-A’s game at the Coliseum. It was the loudest middle finger I’ve ever heard. ![]()
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