Eric Nusbaum
@ericnus.bsky.social
Editor of Seattle Met. Author of Stealing Home. Person in Tacoma.
literally the same technology to see the epstein files that ticketmaster uses for mlb playoff games
December 19, 2025 at 9:32 PM
literally the same technology to see the epstein files that ticketmaster uses for mlb playoff games
Here is a baseball take:
Fernando Valenzuela belongs in the Hall of Fame and the veterans committee should put him in. Amazing pitcher. Global phenomenon. Cool screwball. Kept going for decades even after his arm practically fell off. And you can't tell the story of the sport without him.
Fernando Valenzuela belongs in the Hall of Fame and the veterans committee should put him in. Amazing pitcher. Global phenomenon. Cool screwball. Kept going for decades even after his arm practically fell off. And you can't tell the story of the sport without him.
November 19, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Here is a baseball take:
Fernando Valenzuela belongs in the Hall of Fame and the veterans committee should put him in. Amazing pitcher. Global phenomenon. Cool screwball. Kept going for decades even after his arm practically fell off. And you can't tell the story of the sport without him.
Fernando Valenzuela belongs in the Hall of Fame and the veterans committee should put him in. Amazing pitcher. Global phenomenon. Cool screwball. Kept going for decades even after his arm practically fell off. And you can't tell the story of the sport without him.
I wrote a story for the magazine about what's going on www.seattlemet.com/news-and-cit...
Taken by ICE
More people than ever are being held in Tacoma’s ICE detention center. Fewer are leaving.
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October 30, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I wrote a story for the magazine about what's going on www.seattlemet.com/news-and-cit...
The Dodgers are in the World Series, McCarthyism is back, and there isn't nearly enough housing to go around—all of which makes this a good time to read Stealing Home. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/eric-...
Stealing Home
The "scrupulously detailed" (Los Angeles Times) story of how the fight to build Dodgers Stadium, and transform Los Angeles into a big league city, ...
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October 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The Dodgers are in the World Series, McCarthyism is back, and there isn't nearly enough housing to go around—all of which makes this a good time to read Stealing Home. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/eric-...
Wrote a little about the Mariners and Adam made some cards. www.seattlemet.com/news-and-cit...
A Beautiful, Heartbreaking Mariners Season
Cal Raleigh, Jorge Polanco, and Humpy the salmon brought the joy to Seattle this postseason. Even if it ended badly.
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October 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Wrote a little about the Mariners and Adam made some cards. www.seattlemet.com/news-and-cit...
honestly living the dream
This Couple Is Riding Every Bus in King County
Pat and Don Janssen grab lunch at the end of every line, too.
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July 15, 2025 at 7:42 PM
honestly living the dream
wrote a little blog about the dumper as a cause for hope www.seattlemet.com/news-and-cit...
Cal Raleigh Wins the Home Run Derby
The Big Dumper is reminding Mariners fans that good things can actually happen.
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July 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
wrote a little blog about the dumper as a cause for hope www.seattlemet.com/news-and-cit...
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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:
The Ecology of Baseball Stadiums | Baseball Prospectus
Nature is everywhere, except sometimes where the grass is greenest.
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May 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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:
Hey LA folks, drop everything and register to come hear me and @gustavoarellano.bsky.social talk about Stealing Home (and other stuff) at the Braille Institute on May 14. Event also includes a reading from the book in braille!
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Author Talk with Eric Nusbaum
Join us for an exciting conversation between Eric Nusbaum, author of Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between.
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April 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Hey LA folks, drop everything and register to come hear me and @gustavoarellano.bsky.social talk about Stealing Home (and other stuff) at the Braille Institute on May 14. Event also includes a reading from the book in braille!
www.brailleinstitute.org/find-service...
www.brailleinstitute.org/find-service...
a good nickname for randy johnson would have been the space needle
April 3, 2025 at 3:35 AM
a good nickname for randy johnson would have been the space needle
Stealing Home is not a new book anymore, but this excerpt on Jackie Robinson being hauled to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee feels relevant today: time.com/5808543/jack...
The Story Behind Jackie Robinson’s Moving Testimony Before the House Un-American Activities Committee
On the morning of July 18, 1949, just six days after he played in his first All-Star Game, Jackie Robinson appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee
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March 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Stealing Home is not a new book anymore, but this excerpt on Jackie Robinson being hauled to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee feels relevant today: time.com/5808543/jack...
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This piece I wrote for the @seattlemet.com.web.brid.gy about the love story behind a 16-foot Space Needle in Macon, Georgia just went live:
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Why Is There a Space Needle in Macon, Georgia?
Jesse Evans built it as an ode to his late wife—and an ode to a city he loves.
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February 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM
This piece I wrote for the @seattlemet.com.web.brid.gy about the love story behind a 16-foot Space Needle in Macon, Georgia just went live:
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Good article! Seattle’s low park factor is a kitchen sink of issues, to which I’ll add one more fun fact not mentioned herein: Seattle has MLB’s strongest gravity. A fly ball in Miami will travel about a foot farther than the same ball in Seattle, just from the difference in earth’s gravity alone.
Why is it so hard to hit at Seattle's T-Mobile Field? A deep one on how the the best pitcher's park in baseball creates strikeouts, limits damage, makes it hard to evaluate pitchers and hitters -- and why it's about more than *just* the batter's eye.
--> www.mlb.com/news/seattle...
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MLB's most extreme ballpark isn't in Colorado
Ask a dozen baseball fans which stadium they think created the most extreme park effects in 2024, and invariably most or all of them will give you the same answer: Coors Field. Colorado's ballpark is ...
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January 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Good article! Seattle’s low park factor is a kitchen sink of issues, to which I’ll add one more fun fact not mentioned herein: Seattle has MLB’s strongest gravity. A fly ball in Miami will travel about a foot farther than the same ball in Seattle, just from the difference in earth’s gravity alone.
Turns out I can track my entire adult life through Ichiro memories. Wrote about a few of my favorites here. www.seattlemet.com/news-and-cit...
Longtime Seattle Mariner Ichiro Suzuki Is Going to the Hall of Fame
Let's be grateful we got to watch the Seattle Mariners legend for so long.
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January 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Turns out I can track my entire adult life through Ichiro memories. Wrote about a few of my favorites here. www.seattlemet.com/news-and-cit...
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HOLLYWOODSKI by Lou Mathews will be published by Tiger Van Books on January 21st!! Fuck yeah!! This dark and hilarious gem completes Lou's masterful trifecta of novels about his hometown of Los Angeles. For the love all that is holy and merciful, order this book! Use @bookshop-org.bsky.social
January 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
HOLLYWOODSKI by Lou Mathews will be published by Tiger Van Books on January 21st!! Fuck yeah!! This dark and hilarious gem completes Lou's masterful trifecta of novels about his hometown of Los Angeles. For the love all that is holy and merciful, order this book! Use @bookshop-org.bsky.social
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RIP to Lenny Randle, who recorded easily the funkiest song any MLB player has ever even attempted. It was about the Kingdome. Admittedly I don't know who is even in second place here. (It's pretty good, but the way it's mixed is insane.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0GZ...
Lenny Randle & Ballplayers - Kingdome [1982]
YouTube video by The Soul Box
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December 31, 2024 at 4:57 AM
RIP to Lenny Randle, who recorded easily the funkiest song any MLB player has ever even attempted. It was about the Kingdome. Admittedly I don't know who is even in second place here. (It's pretty good, but the way it's mixed is insane.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0GZ...
Some good reads for the quiet days. www.seattlemet.com/news-and-cit...
Seattle Met's Most-Read Longform Stories of 2024
These are the features our readers loved this year.
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December 27, 2024 at 6:57 PM
Some good reads for the quiet days. www.seattlemet.com/news-and-cit...
this song is too powerful for streaming services to handle www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW1K...
Boyz II Men - Snowy Day
YouTube video by NewHits
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December 21, 2024 at 12:02 AM
this song is too powerful for streaming services to handle www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW1K...
Personal Essay: What It’s Like to Date a Serial Cheater
Jake seemed too good to be true. He was.
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December 18, 2024 at 11:03 PM
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Our snowfall outlook for the winter is live! Check it out on @seattlemet.com.web.brid.gy! www.seattlemet.com/news-and-cit...
Seattle Can (Probably) Look Forward to a Snowy Winter
And not just because of La Niña either.
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December 12, 2024 at 5:35 PM
Our snowfall outlook for the winter is live! Check it out on @seattlemet.com.web.brid.gy! www.seattlemet.com/news-and-cit...
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I'm gonna be ambitious.
I'm 201 subscribers away from 2,000. I think I can get there before 2025. I would love to get there before 2025.
If you haven't subscribed, I'd really appreciate it. If you have subscribed, I do appreciate it. Either way, appreciation.
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I'm 201 subscribers away from 2,000. I think I can get there before 2025. I would love to get there before 2025.
If you haven't subscribed, I'd really appreciate it. If you have subscribed, I do appreciate it. Either way, appreciation.
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My Oh Why
The Mariners. The Seahawks. We love them. We hate them. We remember them. We'll recap games, we'll go over the latest breaking news, and we'll do it all together.
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December 12, 2024 at 2:21 AM
I'm gonna be ambitious.
I'm 201 subscribers away from 2,000. I think I can get there before 2025. I would love to get there before 2025.
If you haven't subscribed, I'd really appreciate it. If you have subscribed, I do appreciate it. Either way, appreciation.
www.youtube.com/@ChrisVCrawf...
I'm 201 subscribers away from 2,000. I think I can get there before 2025. I would love to get there before 2025.
If you haven't subscribed, I'd really appreciate it. If you have subscribed, I do appreciate it. Either way, appreciation.
www.youtube.com/@ChrisVCrawf...
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If you haven’t previously read it, cannot recommend highly enough Eric Nusbaum’s “Stealing Home” on the backstory of how a whole community was razed to build Dodger Stadium.
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Stealing Home
A story about baseball, family, the American Dream, and the fight to turn Los Angeles into a big league city.Dodger Stadium is an American icon. But the stor...
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December 9, 2024 at 5:47 PM
If you haven’t previously read it, cannot recommend highly enough Eric Nusbaum’s “Stealing Home” on the backstory of how a whole community was razed to build Dodger Stadium.
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/eric-...
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/eric-...
Leaving my old life behind to become a pro wrestler under the name Bulk Portugal.
December 4, 2024 at 11:50 PM
Leaving my old life behind to become a pro wrestler under the name Bulk Portugal.
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Ciscoe Morris: "sometimes I think Seattle’s kind of mean to bicycles" and "not enough people ride light-rail. Light-rail is really good. You know, they could make it a little better, I have to admit that. But still, it’s a great way to get around."
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Beloved Gardening Expert Ciscoe Morris Shares His Seattle Favorites
And reminds us drivers to be nicer to cyclists.
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December 3, 2024 at 12:31 AM
Ciscoe Morris: "sometimes I think Seattle’s kind of mean to bicycles" and "not enough people ride light-rail. Light-rail is really good. You know, they could make it a little better, I have to admit that. But still, it’s a great way to get around."
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Unearthing buried treasures from the mid 90s.
November 27, 2024 at 10:31 PM
Unearthing buried treasures from the mid 90s.