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| 19th September, 2007 - 10:55 am |  New York Daily News - Yankee Stadium 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.
With the Yankees a perennial playoff team, it is likely that the final game played at Yankee Stadium will be in October anyways. [READ] |
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