Listen: We know Yankee Stadium is a memorial to all that is great in baseball of time gone by. And that’s fantastic, really. But last night’s ESPN-ification of an event that absolutely everyone knew was coming — and during a meaningless game, no less — made us sick.

It felt like the Yankees were leaving the Bronx entirely, or Major League Baseball was finally closing its doors and there’d be no baseball anymore. But neither of those things are happening. The Yankees decided to leave the Stadium for a newer, nicer stadium with more luxury boxes for corporate sponsors. No one forced them out of Yankee Stadium. So let’s hold back the tearful goodbyes.

Besides, anyone who knows anything knows that the Stadium hasn’t been the Stadium since it was renovated in the early 70s. What we fawned all over last night was a pre-disco era restoration and renovation of the Stadium that hosted Ruth, Gehrig and Mantle. We waved goodbye only to the home of the great late-70s teams and great late-90s teams.
And incidentally, most of the members of those great late-90s teams are still playing for the Yankees, aging before our eyes yet getting long-term contracts, creating a logjam of first basemen that will hinder the Bombers for their first several years in the new digs. The new digs, which, by the way, will be more comfortable and fan-friendly and everything than the old ones, which we’re still wailing over.