As an East Bay native who moved to New York City only 19 months ago for a new job, I have read with interest some recent conversation on this site about the new Yankee Stadium and am very glad that those who have had the chance to attend a game there have seemed to enjoy the place. I attended my first game there this past Tuesday night for the first game of the rain-abbreviated two-game set between the A's and Yankees. I feel compelled to respectfully share another perspective on the new Yankee Stadium, however, which is being quietly but widely panned here in New York and which, after its first homestand, is bordering on being labeled a failure and waste of money by the real locals who have lived here their entire lives, rooted for the Yanks since their childhoods and who are dismayed that the place was clearly not built with them in mind.

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