John Dellapina at The Daily News reports..."As the current Rangers continue to drive down the stretch of this season, what is shaping up as a historic 2008-09 schedule now is expected to include a game at Yankee Stadium.
Momentum has built in recent weeks toward finalizing a deal that would have the Rangers play the final game in the storied history of the current Stadium, the Daily News has learned. The Yankees, who will move into their new Yankee Stadium for the 2009 baseball season, are said to be completely on board with having the NHL close the 85-year-old original."
...it doesn't look like Yankee fans are all that happy with this...
Peter Abraham the Yankees beat writer for The Journal News writes on his blog...
"There’s a story today in the Daily News that suggests the last athletic event at Yankee Stadium will be a hockey game.
A hockey game?
The last game of any kind at Yankee Stadium of any kind needs to be a baseball game. Win or lose, walk-off homer or grounder to second base, it needs to be a baseball game.
The last fan who walks out of the House That Ruth Built should be a baseball fan and the last story filed by a reporter should be a column by Dave Anderson, who was the last writer out of Ebbets Field."
...despite being a Mets fan and loving the idea of the Rangers playing a game at Yankee stadium, I actually agree with Abraham. With all the Yankee history and tradition surrounding that stadium, the last game has to be a Yankee game.
...what about Shea? I don't think too many Mets fans would be in an uproar about who plays the last game in that dump. And if the game features the Islanders, Shea is a perfect neutral site.
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