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New York Post
4 days ago
- Sport
- New York Post
A's fan wearing ‘Sell' t-shirt swarmed by stadium security in wild live broadcast scene
Now you see him, now you don't. It took just one commercial break for an unhappy Athletics fan to be told to move on. During the NBC Sports California pre-game show Thursday at Sutter Health Park in Sacramento, a fan wearing a green shirt with the word 'sell' on it was spotted in the background. Advertisement 4 Multiple security guards came in to speak with the fan regarding his 'Sell' shirt. NBCSports California A few moments later, the show took a commercial break. When the show returned, the fan was swarmed by stadium security. The fan in question is Joe Horton, and this wasn't the first time he'd done this type of stunt. Advertisement On Wednesday night, he was in the background of the Athletics' pre-game show with his infamous shirt. Even after the significant response by security on Thursday, Horton took to X. 4 Multiple security guards came in to speak with the fan regarding his 'Sell' shirt. NBCSports California Advertisement 'They let me stay!,' he wrote. 'Had a great chat.' Horton is far from the first A's fan to speak out over the team's direction from the top. Owner John Fisher has long been the subject of criticism from fans as he moved the team to Sacramento with an ultimate destination of Las Vegas. Advertisement The A's have been quick to stamp out anti-Fisher sentiment. In April 2023, some fans found out that their signs were edited out of replay of former first baseman Ryan Noda's two-run home run. After blowback, MLB quickly deleted and then reinstated the unedited version. 4 The fan, identified as Joe Horton, also wore the shirt earlier in the week — and managed to get on-air. @joebhorton/X 4 Athletic's owner, John Fisher. Getty Images Horton, meanwhile, was able to see Oakland get its first win since May 25 — and much like his baseball team, he isn't giving up either. 'Keeping up the fight,' he wrote on X.
Fox News
4 days ago
- Sport
- Fox News
Athletics fan confronted by security for wearing 'SELL' t-shirt caught on live broadcast
They simply go by the Athletics now, as the team formerly stationed in Oakland will soon plant their roots in Las Vegas. For now, the team plays their games at Sutter Health Park, a minor league field in Sacramento, while the transition to Las Vegas continues to run its course. As a result, there is a large portion of the team's fanbase that remains disgruntled at ownership for moving to Sin City instead of continuing to play in Oakland. Well, one fan decided to make his presence known during the team's pregame show on Thursday ahead of the match-up with the Minnesota Twins. He wore a t-shirt that read, "SELL." While the pregame show was going on, that fan was quickly confronted by a Sutter Health Park security guard, and more team and field officials quickly followed suit. The whole thing was captured on the live broadcast. Joe Horton identified himself on social media as the man in question, and he noted that security allowed him to remain in his seat for the game after speaking with them. He told Awful Announcing, who posted the pregame clips on X, that this was "not my first rodeo." "When they show up I think the whole time – you know this too is on TV right?" Horton replied on X. Horton even had some fun on X posting a screenshot of himself in the background of the pregame show desk surrounded by security and white-polo-wearing officials. "Look how many friends I made today," he captioned the screenshot. Fans like Horton remain ticked off by A's owner John Fisher, who is leading the move to Las Vegas. Similar t-shirts, signs, and flags were seen at the Oakland Coliseum last season when the team's home games started to dwindle as the schedule came to a close. The Athletics will be playing in Sacramento for at least the next couple of seasons, as the team's new ballpark in Las Vegas won't be ready until 2028 at the earliest. So, fans like Horton continue to voice their opinion on Fisher's moves, and it's clear a good portion of the fan base wishes him out of baseball. He doesn't seem inclined to do so. The Athletics remain a very young team with some budding talent, including Brent Rooker, Tyler Soderstrom, Jacob Wilson and Lawrence Butler, among others. They are 24-40 entering Thursday, which is last in the AL West division. Follow Fox News Digital's sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
A's pregame broadcast shows security guards confronting fan wearing 'SELL' T-shirt
The team formerly known as the Oakland Athletics and soon to be known as the Las Vegas Athletics is currently dealing with a rather unhappy fanbase, so much so that one dispute played out on the team's own broadcast. Before the A's game against the Minnesota Twins on Thursday, one fan stood behind the pregame show set wearing a bright green T-shirt with a single word printed on the chest: "SELL." Advertisement It wasn't long before a security guard at Sacramento's Sutter Health Park came down to confront the fan. And it wasn't long before he was joined by two more guards and a pair of white polo-wearing employees. This all played out while the A's TV hosts were discussing a team that entered Thursday in last place in the AL West. The fan later identified himself as Joe Horton on social media, and revealed he was allowed to stay in his seat after the chat with security. His primary reaction when they first approached him: "You know this too is on TV right?" There are a lot of people not happy with the Athletics, and not just the population of Oakland.. (Photo by) (Ezra Shaw via Getty Images) The A's organization remains in an awkward position and will continue to do so for at least a couple years. Hurt feelings abound from their move out of Oakland, but their new home in Las Vegas won't be ready until 2028 at the earliest. Until then, they'll be playing at a minor-league ballpark in Sacramento. Advertisement It's a situation bad enough that many fans want A's owner John Fisher out of the league. There are no indications he wishes to do so. Despite their struggles and fan backlash, the A's went on to beat the Twins 14-3 on Thursday, their highest-scoring game of the season. Young players Max Muncy, Jacob Wilson and Tyler Soderstrom (twice) all homered, with Soderstrom providing the exclamation point with a grand slam in the fourth inning.
Yahoo
02-06-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Lifetime achievement: This man swam 10,000 miles and counting
A swimming pool, or any body of water for that matter, might as well be Walden Pond to Joe Horton. Henry David Thoreau ranks as one of his favorite authors, 'Walden' one of his favorite books. Thoreau spent two years living a simple life. He studied ants. He swam in the pond. Horton's connection to the 19th century essayist and naturalist started in high school in California at a time when he felt embarrassed about being different because he was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 'If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away,' Thoreau wrote. Horton loves that quote. It's on display in his home. 'What I got from Thoreau was permission to be different,' he said. On this warm May morning, Horton, who turns 71 in July, swims laps at the Sports Mall in Murray, though he might as well be at Walden Pond. He powers through the lane in a turquoise swim cap, goggles and light blue trunks, his white beard flashing to the surface when he turns his head to take a breath. The waterline is where all his deep thinking is done. Immersed in aqueous solitude, the retired hospital administrator ponders and prays about his most vexing problems stroke after stroke, lap after lap. He spends the first 15 minutes of his typical hour-long swims giving thanks. He thinks about his wife, two sons and six grandchildren. He recites to himself things he likes to keep in his head, not the least of which is the Crispin Day speech, one of the most famous monologues from Shakespeare's 'Henry V.' 'I find that my problem-solving skills are better after about 30 minutes of swimming. My mind would clear. I was just sharper. So I solved a lot of problems just swimming in the pool,' he said, a congenial tone to his voice. 'But also it's like just sort of meditating. It lends itself to that because you can't talk to anybody. The sounds are kind of meditative. You just hear the sound of the water as you move through it and you can't see very far, so it lends itself to meditating and prayer.' Previously a runner, Horton started swimming at the suggestion of his late wife, Ann, after he tore his meniscus in a fall during a hike in Yosemite. That was in 1982. He has swum a mile three or four times a week ever since. About a year ago, a close friend who had just run his 10,000th mile inspired him to calculate all his miles in the pool. He realized he was about 300 short of 10,000. He ramped up to six or seven times a week, hitting the milestone in late April. And he has no plans to hang up his goggles. Swimming 10,000 miles in a lifetime is a significant physical and mental accomplishment. It's about the equivalent of swimming across the Atlantic Ocean from New York City to the coast of Africa and back. It's roughly 9.2 million strokes. Swimming that distance over four decades is a testament to perseverance, dedication and passion for the sport. And for Horton, a necessity. 'He swims everywhere he goes,' said his wife Pat Jones, whom he married in 2023. Jones' husband, Dan Jones, died in 2018. 'I think it helps him clear his head.' Horton paid homage to Thoreau with a swim in the clear water of Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. 'I love getting into water at places that matter to me so Walden Pond is one of those,' Horton said. He swims at Laguna Beach beyond the breakers where the water is calm and clean. Motivation is never a problem. 'I've just done it for a lot of years. It's become part of my lifestyle. I've become very committed to it. If I don't do it, I don't feel as good,' he said. An English major, naturally, at the University of Utah, Horton wasn't sure what to do with his life after graduation. After a week in law school, he decided that wasn't for him. He took what today might be called a gap year to figure it out. He discovered hospital administration while working at LDS Hospital in the meantime. He went on to get a master's degree in the field at the University of Minnesota. His first administration job was at Cottonwood Hospital in Murray. His true calling, though, didn't come until five years later. And that starts with a story about ants. Horton didn't study ants like Thoreau, but he protected them. On the playground in elementary school, he stood guard on an ant hill that a couple of his third-grade classmates were planning to invade to see how many ants they could kill. After a little jostling, the boys gave up. He even got the most feared teacher in school to make a rule against killing ants for no reason. 'I was the weird kid that actually thought that was wrong, I didn't know what to call it then but Albert Schweitzer calls it reverence for life. I had that as a kid,' he said. Horton shares that childhood memory as we sit poolside after his swim. He relates that Ann told him he's supposed to be at a children's hospital because he has strong feelings about protecting the vulnerable, and there's nobody more vulnerable than babies and sick or injured children. That, she told him, fits who you are. 'When she said that it was like a lightning bolt just went through my head. I knew she was right. I'd never had that experience before or since but that was just like a moment of clarity,' he said. That led him to Primary Children's Hospital where he worked for 21 years, the last 14 as CEO. He finished his hospital administration career as Intermountain Health's senior vice president over its 23 hospitals at the time. He retired in 2012 but started teaching ethics and leadership courses in the hospital administration program at the University of Utah. And he never stopped swimming. 'What I found was that running hospitals is a pretty intense job. I needed something to manage the stress and kind of wash out the tension and it needed to be after work so I could go home and be a good human being to my wife and my two boys. Swimming did that better than anything else,' Horton said. Joe and Ann Horton were married 42 years and raised two sons. She was diagnosed with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis just before they were sealed in the Salt Lake Temple. She used a wheelchair the last 30 years before she died in 2021. Swimming helped him get through what also was an intense part of his life. 'There's so many times where I felt like I hit the wall as a result of one or the other or both and the swimming would kind of just bring me back. It's going to be OK. You can do it. And the Crispin Day speech was part of that, like don't give up,' he said. Horton memorized the speech 30 years ago line by line as he swam. He quotes it as we sit by the pool. 'If we are mark'd to die, we are enow, To do our country loss; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour . . . ' In 'Henry V,' a young King Henry addresses his badly outnumbered English troops to inspire and motivate them against the French army in the Battle of Agincourt. He emphasizes honor, camaraderie and valor. He tells his soldiers that those who fight with him on St. Crispin's Day will be forever bonded as 'we happy few, we band of brothers.' He tells them that those who survive will be remembered and honored. In the end, the English suffered few casualties, while the French lost an estimated 10,000 men. There were times when Horton felt outnumbered and couldn't see his way out of a problem, and the stakes were always high. Instead of quitting, he recited the speech. And there was always the water. 'I really think that speech,' he said, 'and with it the swimming . . . was sort of the time where I could take a breath, where I could relax, in an otherwise intense world.'
