The new Yankee Stadium Metro-North stop to go online in 2009 is posing some logistical challenges to scheduling, reports LoHud.com’s ‘Going Places’:

Left: Say hello to your new seatmates on the way home from work. They appreciate you making the extra slow loop-stop so they can share your hour-long ride home.

“The station, which will become a regular stop for the Hudson Line seven days a week, will present unique logistical challenges on games days. Scheduling game trains around Metro-North’s regular schedule of nearly 700 trains each weekday is a puzzle with variables including whether is a day or night game, a weekday or weekend game. Irregularities such as double-headers, rain delays, extra innings, make-up games and potential playoffs will require operating flexibility.”

Owie.

Yeah, that is a problem.

All three Metro-North lines will have access to the stop, but it is only a regular stop on the Hudson Line. Harlem and New Haven Line train, when explicitly scheduled around games, will need to take a special loop to get there.

Every time I hear that, I think of trying to home from work on the New Haven Line on a game day and grinding my teeth, clenching my fists while the train sllooowwwly loops around to pickup a few hundred half-sober Yankee fans - yikes.