I am ashamed to say that I haven't been a Sox fan for my entire life. I used to think baseball was stupid and boring when I was younger, and it wasn't until my father brought me to a few games at Fenway between 01-03 that I really started getting into it. It was around late 02 that I became a hardcore Sox fan (and baseball fan), just in time to get into a full season the next year when the Sox lost the ALCS.