You know you’re a Red Sox fan if …

Remember Bobby Kielty's home run in Game 4 of the 2007 World Series? Then you're a Red Sox fan.COMMENTARY

I first wrote a version of this column many years ago, nearly 20 now, in a different time and at a different place.

In the spirit of the Red Sox’ imminent and welcome return to our strange and scary world, I think it’s time for an update.

So, you’re a Red Sox fan if …

You never forget the journeymen that came through in the biggest moments, from Bobby Kielty to Jonny Gomes to Steve Pearce.

You wonder how franchise history would have been different had the Joe Rudi/Rollie Fingers purchases in ’76 or the tentative deals for Sammy Sosa, Kevin Appier, and John Wetteland during the ’94 strike…