Two weeks ago, I received the following email from the BU Alumni Club. Please take note of the highlighted section of the email.
Here are a couple of issues I have with this presumptive email:
- Apparently, I can travel up to Boston on two weeks notice to take in a Red Sox game at Friendly Fenway Park.
- “[Y]our Red Sox”?!?!? The Red Sox were never nor will they ever be my team. Indeed, while the Orioles continue to founder below mediocrity this season, I still will never become a fan of the Red Sox. Of course, the alumni club of my alma mater presumes that everyone who went to BU has become a Red Sox fan.
I will keep this in mind for the coming weekend invasion of Sox fans into Baltimore as the Red Sox come into town. 
I’m sure we’ve got a picture somewhere of you wearing a Bosox shirt or hat. Don’t make Rob go dig it up!
Actually, I would wager that there was never a photo of me with a Red Sox hat on. Maybe a Cubs hat, but never a Red Sox hat.