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September 19, 2007

The Last Game In 2008

From the Daily News:

The House That Ruth Built will close at the end of the 2008 season, but the schedule that MLB built doesn't seem to realize that.

Next season will serve as a six-month homage to Yankee Stadium, as baseball's cathedral will celebrate its 86th and final year. But when the regular season concludes, the Yankees won't be there. They'll be in Boston, playing the Red Sox at Fenway Park on Sept. 28.

Preliminary copies of the 2008 schedule have been distributed to all 30 major league teams, giving clubs an opportunity to request changes.

According to sources, the Yankees had assumed that they would finish the season at home, and they had planned a host of festivities around the event. Yankee officials declined to comment on the schedule, citing the fact that the official schedule had not yet been released.

Katy Feeney, MLB's senior vice president of scheduling and club relations, said that, to her knowledge, the Yankees had yet to file a complaint with the league. But one source said the Yankees are believed to be lobbying for a change in the schedule.

What, the Yankees aren't going to be in the post-season next year? To me, that would be the last game in Yankee Stadium history.

But, I know where this is going. The Yankees probably want to do something like the Braves, Tigers and Orioles did when they closed their old places...by bringing people back from the past, etc. And, you can't really do that during the post-season.

Posted by Steve Lombardi at September 19, 2007 09:33 AM

Comments

Yanks should definitely be home for the last regular season game next year.

Posted by: rbj [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 19, 2007 01:21 PM