It’s very simple.

Jaromir Jagr shooting slap shots off Babe Ruth’s face in Monument Park is not the way Yankee Stadium should be closed.

Yes, there have been other events other than baseball at Yankee Stadium, but the last game played at the “House that Ruth Built” needs to be a baseball game.

What makes a hockey game between the Rangers and Bruins any better than a Division Series game or World Series game? The truth is that while it’s a nice idea, it shouldn’t happen at Yankee Stadium. Go play it at Giants Stadium or Shea, or on a pond in Central Park (should be an afternoon game for that last option).

And if you are going to make it an outside memorial hockey game, why would you have the Bruins involved? At least make it Rangers-Islanders or Rangers-Devils.

Just don’t do it at Yankee Stadium.

There will be ceremonies and events planned, but the final game should be a Yankees one. It doesn’t matter if it’s a Robinson Cano ground out or Magglio Ordonez home run, the last game played in one of the most prestigious and famous stadiums in the world has to involve baseball.

Would Duke fans want the final game played at Cameron Indoor Stadium to be a local high school championship game?

You are right Mr. Macyk, U2 has played there, and there were Giants games there and the Pope was there. But there were Yankee games in the following weeks or months. Even Pope Benedict XVI will be there next month. And Yankee games will follow.

And it should be “Enter Sandman” or “New York, New York” that plays from the loud speakers, not the “Slapshot” (the New York Rangers goal song) or “Sweet Caroline.” Yes, you heard me right. The song that is associated with the hated Boston Red Sox is played with five minutes to go in the game in which the Rangers are winning. So you mean to tell me that the last impression of Yankee Stadium will be playing the Yankees most hated rival’s favorite song? That doesn’t seem right.

How is the last voice heard at Yankee stadium not one of Bob Sheppard’s famous announcements, “Now batting, the shortstop, No. 2 … Derek Jeter … shortstop … No. 2.”

So, on Sept. 21, 2008 when the Yankees play the Baltimore Orioles — and the Yankees came from Baltimore in 1903, so how appropriate that as the Yankees look to the future they honor their past — that is the way Yankee Stadium should go.

Bow out gracefully and respectfully. Not by making a mockery of it.