Butch Stearns!

Apologies that this isn't word-for-word, but I just heard this at the end of Fox 25's news broadcast from sports anchor Butch Stearns:

We'd like to mention 15-year-old Patrick White. Like many of you, he lived and died for the Red Sox. Patrick lost his battle with cancer last week...

Couldn't they have found a less ironic way to express his love for the team?