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writingonmusic @writingonmusic.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This analysis is about sports but it has many excellent insights into event pricing in general. Anyone interested in why tickets to big concerts cost more and more should watch this. Great work @danmoore.bsky.social and @moreperfectunion.bsky.social 👏

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Dan Moore @danmoore.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

only problem is the writing is so good that I now feel terribly self-conscious about the thing i'm working on that i feel like i have to start over so thanks for that giri

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Dan Moore @danmoore.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Really late to the game on this one but I—someone who has almost never watched tennis and knows next-to-nothing about it—have finally started reading Changeover by @girinathan.bsky.social and it's fucking incredible and I think I love tennis now?

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Dan Moore @danmoore.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

The only wrinkle: my wife's pregnant with our second child, another boy, who arrives in June—so the deadline's been moved up. Wish me luck. Anyway up top's a picture from like the one walk I took. It's of the greatest city on earth. #Books

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Dan Moore @danmoore.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I checked out of the hotel feeling fully the former—and newly confident in my ability to finish this damn thing, certainly by my September deadline. I see it. I'm getting excited about showing it to people.

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Dan Moore @danmoore.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Writing a book has simultaneously been the most engrossing thing I've ever done and the most soul-jangling. I vacillate between pure love for the material I'm working with and high-pitched anxiety over all the ways I'm sure I'm not doing it justice.

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Dan Moore @danmoore.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Last week I got a hotel room in downtown Oakland and did nothing but write for four days. I'd never done anything like that. I'm glad I did. To live in the book for so long changed my relationship to it. (And made me deathly jealous of people who can go on like a months'-long book leave.)

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Dan Moore @danmoore.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I'm writing a book. It's about Oakland. I usually work on it early in the morning, at night, in whatever pockets of time I can squirrel away from my three year old. It's always hard yanking myself out of the draft. Depending how long I'm away, it's even harder re-immersing myself in it. 🧵

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Dan Moore @danmoore.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Also went digging through some old Oakland Tribune archives. The people in the history room at @oaklibrary.bsky.social are maybe the kindest people on earth.

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Dan Moore @danmoore.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Hey this is what my book is about

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Sarah Enni @sarahenni.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Reeeeeeeeally excited for this

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Sarah @schtimpy27.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Pros may have left, but the tough and the plucky remain. Side note: Oakland is also home to California’s only dedicated curling ice.

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Dan Moore @danmoore.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I’m so excited to finally share this: I’m writing a book! It’s about Oakland—its rise as a great American sports town, its fall to the billionaires who abandoned it, and, most of all, the fans and activists and founders who fought to hold onto this aspect of the city’s identity and soul.

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Dan Moore @danmoore.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Oakland lost every single one of its big league sports teams. So a pair of fans built Oakland an independent pro team of its own. Now the @oaklandballers.bsky.social are competing for the Pioneer League World Series before sell-out crowds. Coolest story in sports.

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Dan Moore @danmoore.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Finally, it’s a literal dream come true to be writing for ESPN. I’m so grateful to my editors Rebecca Hudson and Scott Burton for their hard work on this story and Tony Moss for helping make it happen.

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Dan Moore @danmoore.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

I spent most of the summer in Cleveland reporting on this, and I left it enamored of the place. I sincerely appreciate everyone there who let me into their lives for a while. Cleveland rocks.

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Dan Moore @danmoore.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

For my first story in @espn.com, I profiled the #DawgPound. It’s a story about Cleveland, the Browns, community in the Muni Lot, and what the most loyal fan base in sports is ultimately loyal to. www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

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Cleveland Browns fans know how to keep the faith

The Dawg Pound has witnessed 30 years of futility. Will the team's bid for the burbs test the loyal fanbase?

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Dan Moore @danmoore.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Finished The Pacific Circuit by @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social. So very good. Infuriates, illuminates, & captures Oakland's centrality to other larger infuriating stories all at same time. Elegantly synthesizes a shit ton of research / reporting. Weaves a good yarn. My pages runneth over w/ notes. 👏

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Patrick Dubuque @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com · 20/05/2025

New from me at BP: An essay about the ecology of baseball stadiums, which stand as beautiful lifeless monuments to an era of urban command over nature, one that is quickly dying out. On ballparks, parks, and the growing divide between the two:

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The Ecology of Baseball Stadiums | Baseball Prospectus

Nature is everywhere, except sometimes where the grass is greenest.

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Dan Moore @danmoore.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

I'm one of the casual basketball-watchers @redford.bsky.social refers to here and I thoroughly enjoyed + genuinely appreciated this smart / sharp take on how to watch basketball in a smarter / sharper way. Perfect timing for watching the Warriors slowly disassemble. defector.com/how-to-watch...

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How To Watch Basketball | Defector

The NBA playoffs are in full swing, and as such, I find myself watching and talking about the games with people who do not watch as much basketball as I do, probably because watching basketball is not...

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Mirann Lolani Tsumura-Hughes @mirannlolani.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Get comfy and read this one. Dan writes about Sacramento with the consideration, depth, and honesty it deserves.

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Dan Moore @danmoore.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Is it even legal to write about Sacramento without a didion reference?

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Dan Moore @danmoore.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Ah man thanks Jason! Really appreciate you reading

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Dan Moore @danmoore.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I spent the last few months reporting on the strangest story in sports: the surreal, high-stakes experiment of the "Sacramento" A's. It’s a story about rootedness, compromise, & the competition for big-league status. It's out now in the @theringer.com.web.brid.gy theringer.com/2025/04/22/m...

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The Faustian Bargain of the “Sacramento” Athletics

The A’s three-year stay in Sacramento is a potential coup for the proud underdog sports town. It’s also a mess. What’s the price of big league dreams?

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Dan Moore @danmoore.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I look forward to every @hannahrkeyser.bsky.social dispatch and this one is top notch 👌

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