More People Who Might Be Diehards

You might be a diehard if...
	...you've worn a Red Sox t-shirt underneath your Navy dress uniform during a command inspection. (1986)
– Al McGilvray
	...you taught your 6-year-old daughter how to spell Carl Yastrzemski's name correctly.
– Jim Achey
	...after giving blood you pass out, and when you wake up the first thing you do is call your Mom to ask who's pitching that night... just to make sure you don't have any memory loss going on.
– Tara from Rhode Island
	...your dad played for the Southampton Blue Sox against Yaz and his family on the White Eagles in town league, and had a better batting average.
– Sheppard
	...you teach kids in Pakistan baseball, while doing earthquake relief, and that the only true baseball team is the Red Sox.
– Thomas John
	...you take dirt from Fenway every time you're there just to add some of the magic to your wiffleball field.
– Pat C.
	...you've ever sung "root root for the RED SOX!" during the seventh-inning stretch when the Sox are not even playing the home team.
– Sean Moran
	...you paint your room like Fenway Park with adjustable standings and scoreboard.
– Joey
	...you were physically ill all Sunday night after the Red Sox were swept by the Yankees in a 4-game series over the weekend. On Monday morning, you find out your town's drinking water is contaminated with e. coli, but you still blame the Yankees.
– Kristen
	...almost every day in Manila, you take your 13-month-old daughter for a ride in her stroller. You wear your Red Sox baseball cap and a Red Sox T-shirt. Also, living in a time zone 12 hours ahead of the East Coast, you get up in the middle of your night to follow the Red Sox games on "Gameday" via the internet.
– BoSox Fan 1950
	...you never knew a thing about baseball until your friends forced you to sit in front of the TV and watch the 2004 playoffs. By the end of the series you knew every player, position, stat, batting order, pitching rotation and that the Yanks were more evil than anything to ever live on this earth. 5 years later your friends who have followed them since birth, come to you for all the new stats and updates... thank you guys, I love this team!
– James
	...you fly 3000 miles to go to a game. Go through the tour in the afternoon. Enter the stadium when the gates open, sit for three and a half hours and have the game cancelled because of lighting. And say you were in the park long enough to see a game!
– Mark B.
	...you name your new cat Papi.
– Meghan
	...you live in Spain and you used to be awake at 1:05 a.m. to watch the Red Sox games.
– Guillem
	...you cry with complete strangers you just met in a bar recalling Red Sox losses neither one of you was yet born for. Oh, and you want your kid to grow up to be just like Tony Fossas.
– Matt in Oklahoma
	...you ran outside screaming and banging pots and pans when the Red Sox won the 2004 World Series.
– Shayne Dunn
	...you almost missed your first dance at your wedding to listen to the top half of the first inning on your phone when the Red Sox were playing Oakland.
– Jeff
	...you drove from Jackson, Mississippi, on Friday night at midnight to New Orleans, hopped on a 5 am plane to Logan, and arrived just in time for the 2004 victory parade!
– Jane
	...you wrote a final thesis of how the Red Sox organization relates to social structure in a senior sociology class in college.
– Matt Caruso
	...you ran into the church across the street from your house betweeen innings to pray for the Sox to win during Game 5 of the '03 ALDS.
– Buck
	...you completely cover your bathroom in Red Sox stuff so it can be like "Fever Pitch", receive a roll of Yankees toilet paper as a house-warming gift and when you go to Yankee Stadium you buy the New York subway Yankee Stadium station sign, because it will look just perfect over the toilet.
– Shari
	...it takes you seven months to put siding on the back of your house because you kept stopping to go watch the games.
– Beth R.
	...you stand in line for more than 6 hours to get your pic taken with the World Series trophy the first time they won it after 86 years.
– Dexter Gagnon
	...you have a playlist on your ipod, specifically for Red Sox games. You don't listen to it at any other time, otherwise the luck will be tarnished.
– Tessie
	...when you are rushed to the hospital for a heart attack, just before you sign the waiver to have an angiogram, you tell them they can strip you down and shave you, but you insist that they allow you to keep your Red Sox cap on as they put you under!
– Mark Hughes from CT
	...your locker combination is 7-20-9 and you open the lock always saying, "J.D. Drew, Kevin Youkilis, Ted Willliams" while all the girls in the locker room look at you like you're nuts.
– Tara
	...you live 3940 miles from Fenway and you watched BOS @ NYY 2004 ALCS Game 7 till 6 a.m. together with a Yankee fan.
– Francesco L.
	...you decided to buy your house because the neighbors were Red Sox fans.
– Tiffany
	...you pay a friend double your normal wage to cover your ER shift, find a "ticket procurement agent", and drive through the night to make it to St. Louis in time to see Game 4 of the 2004 World Series, then drive through the night again to make it home in time for your next shift.
– Jim
	...your son's name is Boston, and your dogs' names are Fenway and Sox.
– Kim Porter
	...you spent 2 months trying to convince your husband to cancel your 2 week cruise to Alaska, so you could go to Japan to see the Sox begin the season.
– Missy
	...you begged your coach to petition for your Pee-Wee softball team to be called the Patten Lady Red Sox, but got rejected because he was a Yankee fan.
– Jen
	...you might be the only Sox fan on the face of the earth who, when the Sox took the field in the bottom of the 10th for Game Six, screamed from the nosebleed section of Shea Stadium, "Where's Dave Stapleton?" (Don't get me started on John Mac!)
– SJM
	...you took a bottle of holy water to Fenway in '04 and '07 and threw it over the Green Monster to rid the curse in '04 and give them luck in '07.
– Matt Peters
	...you left a water park you paid too much money for just so you wouldn't miss the end of the first game of a doubleheader.
– Danielle
	...while at a game with your girlfriend, you refused to talk to her from the second inning on because she voted for Derek Jeter on her All-Star ballot.
– William Larson
	...on your first wedding anniversary, you and your husband get Red Sox tattoos.
– Mary P.
	...you leave instructions in your will to be cremated with some of your ashes to be spread on the warning track at Fenway.
– Brian Saunders
	...you've ever watched 4 or more innings of a game from the kitchen because you were in the kitchen when the Sox went ahead and you don't want to jinx the team.
– Mike
	...you bring your newborn boy home from the hospital in a Red Sox sleeper.
– Debbie Hanson
	...you convince your family to reschedule your Dad's funeral service so you can make it to Game #1 of the 2004 Division Series against the Angels (I live in Anaheim).
– Vince