Attention Boston fans: during the fourth inning of Tuesday afternoon's radio broadcast of the Yankee-Red Sox game,
team announcers will switch booths! So, if you hear Yankee announcer
John Sterling call out this:
"It's an X-Bomb From The X-Man", don't panic. It's a home-run by Red Sox shortstop
Xander Bogaerts. Similarly, if Red Sox announcer
Joe Castiglione bellows out,
"Giancarlo goes deep...can you believe it?", it's OK (sort of)—just a tater by
Giancarlo Stanton. Interestingly, Castiglione grew up in New Haven, Connecticut and attended many games at the old Yankee Stadium (which actually had some character, unlike the mausoleum that's there today). Castig actually dreamt of calling Yankee games someday. Anyway, all this confusion is a gimmicky way to
pretend that everything is just hunky-dory between the two long-time rivals. Rest assured—it is
not.
