So, here's the story. Paul Williams was married to Christine. Paul leaves Christine to be with Isabella. Christine goes to the christening of Paul and Isabella's son. Michael Baldwin shows up to be with Christine. Michael and Paul fight each other at the christening. Michael loses the fight. Paul, feeling spurned by Isabella, leaves. Now, to describe that scenario in the baseball "soap". Don Zimmer (Paul) managed the Red Sox (Christine). He leaves the Red Sox and ends up with the Yankees (Isabella). The Red Sox go to the ALCS (the christening). Pedro Martinez (Michael) shows up to be with the Red Sox. Zimmer and Martinez fight at the ALCS. Martinez ends up losing the fight when the Red Sox eventually lose the series. Later Zimmer, feeling spurned by the Yankees, leaves. It's amazing how the stories parallel each other. It was as if the writers of The Young and The Restless had written the baseball "script". Hey, SportsCenter's not on all day, you know. The baseball soap goes on. Its story still looks like a real one. The Red Sox went out and found the star, Curt Schilling. They are now an item. They are trying to no longer be the Susan Lucci of the Major League and finally end their close finishes and win one. The Yankees, just like a soap opera vixen, have started courting pitcher Vazquez and right-fielder Sheffield. All the while they are still in bed with long-time love David Wells and trying not to lose Andy Pettite. So it still goes on. If you want to find out what is happening in Major League Baseball, just watch The Young and The Restless or watch the baseball saga to follow the soap. Just as always in these stories, people fall in love. It's supposed to be forever. In the next episode, they have found someone new. In the same way, players and clubs fall in love. They are together for a while then one or the other falls for others. They change partners as fast as soap opera characters find new love. After a while you can't keep up with whom is with whom. So tune in tomorrow for another episode of As the Baseball Turns [organ music in background grows louder]. | 
