Red Sox Fans

From the Boston Globe today:

Dave Albee is a columnist for the Marin (Calif.) Independent Journal, which is a long way from the Maine woods in which he grew up. Albee is from Dover-Foxcroft, a lumber town smack in the middle of the state.Yesterday, Albee brought a T-shirt to the game: Boston Red Sox, 1986 World Champions. A friend, Mike Duca, bought it for him on Lansdowne Street after Game 5, a Red Sox win. Duca also brought him back a bottle of Sam Adams, which at the time was only distributed locally.That beer still sits in a Ziploc bag in Albee's refrigerator. Albee has vowed not to open the beer until the Sox win the World Series. It's in his will that in the event he dies before the Sox win, the beer will be inherited by his daughter, Damiane, a high school teacher in North Carolina.In 1999, when the Sox beat the Indians after Pedro Martinez threw six no-hit innings of relief, Albee's wife, Caroline, was waiting for him when he arrived home from a 49ers practice he was covering.''Drink the beer now,'' she said.''Hey, they're playing the Yankees next,'' Albee said, remaining true to his vow while betraying a Mainer's sense of impending doom.Albee is older than Rickey Henderson, but still imagines the day he'll pop off that bottle cap, expiration date be damned.''I may vomit,'' he said, ''but it will be worth it.''

Gotta love 'em. And heck... at least we don't throw junk at the visiting team's center fielder in the ninth inning.