Dan Moore

Writer @ESPN @ringer | Also @TheAtlantic @Baseballpro, @Oaklandside, others | SPORTS TOWN (forthcoming @UnivNebPress) | East Bay 🌳 | Oliver’s dad ⚾️

[Dan Moore @DmoWriter]

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 history, identity and soul.

I aim to get it all: what happened, how it happened, and why it matters not just to A’s, Raiders, Warriors, Roots and Ballers fans, but sports fans (and taxpayers) everywhere.

I’ve been working on this for a long time already, and though there’s still a long way to go, I’m so excited for you all to read it. Let’s Go, Oakland. I hope it does you justice ⚾️

cc @OaklandBallers @oaklandrootssc @Oakland68s @LastDiveBar @UnivNebPress

[Pablo Torre 👀 @PabloTorre]

James Dolan invited his friend Donald Trump to watch Game 3. In order to do that, they have to ban the organic, historically joyous parties happening outside MSG for fans who can't afford to be inside. Modern sports in a nutshell

[George Washington 🇺🇸 @YN_Washington]

They put the skyline on the cover and the entirety of Chicago got hit with the worst Madden curse of all time

[Kevin Clark @bykevinclark]

My one Bears take is that basically every team that has left its city center is worse off for it. I think the Jets and Giants playing in Jersey leaves them more disconnected from the city/region than they should be. Same with SF. You just get less juice, unfortunately.

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

honestly one of the most humiliating decisions in professional sports history and proof that there are no adults left in the room trying to advocate for the League, just a bunch of billionaires trying to shake every last quarter out of their piggy banks

[Dan Moore @DmoWriter]

@by_drew I'm learning this.

[Evan Drellich @EvanDrellich]

Rob Manfred said in October 2024 that MLB had a "darn good" record on competitive balance. Back in 2018, he said the correlation between winning and spending was "extraordinarily weak."

Now, he says MLB's luxury-tax system has failed:

https://t.co/0K7EvFZMxU

[Brian @CubsCreator]

Best one they have ever made

[Dan Moore @DmoWriter]

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 and it's fucking incredible and I think I love tennis now? Only problem is the writing is so good that I now feel so terribly self-conscious about the thing i'm working on that i feel like I have to start over so thanks for that Giri

[Dan Moore @DmoWriter]

I could read this 1000 times. So good

[Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing]

Wright Thompson reflects on fathers, daughters, golf, the power of sports, and the future of sports journalism.

https://t.co/huRI5VzfCI

[Dan Moore @DmoWriter]

@jaybusbee @YahooSports This was great, Jay!

[Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing]

Wright Thompson opens up on a number of subjects.

- Why he didn't write the sequel to his most famous story.
- Why sports and sportswriting matter.
- Becoming a student with new media.
- Saying no to Michael Jordan and the difference between selling merch and journalism.

[Dan Moore @DmoWriter]

Really loved this essay on Wemby by @dannychau in the @ringer. Captures the scale of what the basketball world is dealing w here

https://t.co/FUJTpITdhN

[Dan Moore @DmoWriter]

The only blog on the cursed MLB CBA negotiations that you need to read ever.

@RattoIndy ladies and gentlemen.

https://t.co/8HGCLW90n5

[Dan Moore @DmoWriter]

@jaycaspiankang @minakimes Can’t wait for this!

[Dan Moore @DmoWriter]

@SBJ https://t.co/2xLLfRAmjB

[Dan Moore @DmoWriter]

Chasing MLB expansion was Sacramento's plan all along. McCarty and Ranadive were making a bet. They'd allow the A’s to use Sacramento in hopes that Sacramento could use the A’s in return. Wrote about it last year in the @ringer.

https://t.co/2xLLfRAmjB

[Céspedes Family BBQ @CespedesBBQ]

A few weeks ago the Giants beat the Dodgers 29-2… in the Arizona Complex League.

I wrote about what the hell happened and why it’s a symptom of something much bigger going wrong in the low-level minor leagues.

“It’s a total s*** show.”

@YahooSports
https://t.co/smKDTyYdZP

[Quetzalcoatl Cortes @QCortes]

Oakland and the fans get mentioned in this exchange about fan pushback to save their teams.

[Dan Moore @DmoWriter]

Chasing MLB expansion was Sacramento's plan all along. McCarty and Ranadive were making a bet. They'd allow the A’s to use Sacramento in hopes that Sacramento could use the A’s in return. Wrote about it last year in the @ringer.

https://t.co/2xLLfRAmjB

[Dan Moore @DmoWriter]

@LastDiveBar @OaklandBallers Oh he’s making sure!

[Dan Moore @DmoWriter]

About 3 years and one week ago, at the @LastDiveBar Rotten Tomato Tailgate, Oliver, from inside his mom’s tummy, took his first shot at JF. A year after that, he went to his first fan’s fest, then his first @OaklandBallers game. Today, he turns 3! Happy bday little man