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First Look at New Yankee Stadium
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Jen Carlson
Published Jan 13, 2009
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Diamond Hoggers has a first look inside the new Yankee Stadium, which includes a new shiny locker room complete with giant hot tub and Yankee logo carpeting. Elsewhere there's an indoor batting cage for rainy day sluggers, as a sign hangs outside stating the date the park is to be born: 2/17/09. That's the day construction is set to end, and reportedly "some of the workers on site are wearing buttons that say, 'YANKEE STADIUM, 2-17-09' as a motivational reminder."
While the site notes that nearly everything else is the same as the old stadium, even "those legendary bleachers out in right field," there is one noticeable difference so far: The scoreboard is apparently more modern looking in the new park. However, the public has a while before getting their seats on the new bleachers: The Yanks won't host their first exhibition games until April 3rd, 2009, which happens to be the same day that Mets host their first exhibition games at their new home, CitiField.
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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