Old Yankee Stadium a sad sight (and site) during World Series

NEW YORK — It still stands across the street. Looking like a boarded-up carnival or a resort town whose next summer will never come, old Yankee Stadium finds itself in the unfamiliar position of being an afterthought while there's October baseball still being played in the Bronx. No more getting ready to receive thousands of bundled-up New Yorkers with World Series dreams. No more awaiting the magical transformation of cold concrete into a hot cauldron on a chilly but sparkling fall night on the southwest corner of 161st and River.Those days are over for old Yankee Stadium. Only the dismantling continues. Even for this visitor from the Midwest, it's a sad thing to see. Scaffolding and black netting mask the walls. Construction fences line the perimeter. A peek inside reveals that all the blue seats have been stripped away, packaged for sale with other pinstriped artifacts and bound for the basement bars of Yankee fans around the world. Some ballpark advertising still ...