When Veterans Stadium met with the wrecking ball in 2003, having a double decked mini-replica of that old Phillies stadium in Scranton suddenly made far less sense. When the Phillies left Scranton behind for a brand new ballpark in Allentown (The Iron Pigs' Coca Cola Park after a quick 1 year stop at Ottawa's Lynx Stadium) and were replaced by the New York Yankees, Lackawanna County Stadium would make even less sense than ever. It became apparent that if the Yankees were going to remain in Scranton-Wilkes Barre that they would prefer to play in a ballpark that looked more like a mini-Yankee Stadium and not like the old Philadelphia Phillies "donut style stadium".