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by Alanah McGinley on 03/11/08 at 01:16 PM ET
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Baseball fans have their own concerns when it comes to the rumors of a hockey game closing out Yankee Stadium next season. From Ian O’Connor via NorthJersey.com,
A slapshot cannot be the last athletic act performed inside Yankee Stadium, not when the stadium’s only power plays unfolded inside George Steinbrenner’s suite.
Hockey absolutely, positively cannot be the game that closes down the greatest baseball temple on earth. Nothing personal, just business. The business of giving a proper burial to a building that shouldn’t die on a marketing gimmick hatched by a sport with no place in stadium lore.
The Rangers have a monument they can send to the grave in the near future. It’s called Madison Square Garden, and it won’t be around for much longer, not with every other team in the market moving into new and improved digs.
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People have short attention spans. Whenever the last baseball game is played in Yankee Stadium there will be enough down time in between to where this issue won’t be an issue.
Posted by Jdunc from Flint, MI on 03/11/08 at 02:12 PM ET
The “hallowed” grounds of the “house that Ruth” built argument is all hogwash. It is a stadium and not the stadium that Ruth built since that was re-built years ago. If the Forum can be an entertainment complex so let’s not get so nostalgic about a building that is destined to be torn down anyway. Neither of these stadiums are Flanders Fields, so let’s not exaggerate the whole hallowed ground argument either.
Posted by Hockey1919 from Montreal on 03/11/08 at 02:44 PM ET
“Hockey absolutely, positively cannot be the game that closes down the greatest baseball temple on earth.” Wha? They’re playing it at Yankee stadium, not Wrigley Field. (And I’m not a Cubs fan. 
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Posted by Kick Save from Jacketland on 03/11/08 at 02:52 PM ET
I am not even sure Baseball is a sport yet I have to agree. It’s Baseball’s shrine, hockey shouldn’t close it out.
There are other places to have the event, which is well worth having. Just not there, not now.
Posted by Laker from dapuddle on 03/11/08 at 03:16 PM ET
“Hockey absolutely, positively cannot be the game that closes down the greatest baseball temple on earth.” Wha? They’re playing it at Yankee stadium, not Wrigley Field. (And I’m not a Cubs fan. smile )
You mean not Fenway, right? 
Posted by NHLJeff from Boston, MA on 03/11/08 at 03:16 PM ET
According to NHL Tournament of logos (http://nhllogos.blogspot.com), there was a
photo taken during a recent tour of Yankee Stadium. It looks like they are
trying to plan the event prior to the Yankee’s season.
Here is the link:
http://nhllogos.blogspot.com/2008/03/next-outdoor-game-in-nyc.html
Pretty interesting
Posted by NHLJeff from Boston, MA on 03/11/08 at 06:03 PM ET
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“Nothing personal, just business.”
Absolutely right. And if the Yankees organization can make a few more dollars themselves out of letting the NHL use a facility that is just going to be demolished anyway, then they will without a second thought as to the faithful fans crying rivers of tears as they say goodbye. Same way that if the new owners of the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field can finagle a few more dollars out of the naming rights to the ballpark, they will probably do that deal as well.
Besides, by the time the hockey game would be played the baseball fans would be in hibernation anyway.
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 03/11/08 at 01:26 PM ET