My friends and I didn't have parents into sports. We grew up on the north side. We actually liked both teams til we were 9 or 10. Then we just started liking Harold Baines, Ozzie, Walker, Carlos Martinez, Fisk, Pasqua, Gallagher, Melido, Thigpen, Black Jack, etc.. more. We starting taking the red line from the howard stop to 35th, when we were 10. And all 6 of us have been Sox fans ever since.