They’ve barely had time to rid the room of the rancid stench of stale champagne. Surely they haven’t been able to shampoo the rug yet. Bad enough the Red Sox clinched first place in the AL East after the ninth and final regular-season game they played at Yankee Stadium this year, back on Sept. 20.
Nineteen days later, they will have the chance to do it all over again, to turn the visitors’ clubhouse behind the third-base dugout into a temporary Delta House, this time to celebrate the final vanquishing of the 2018 Yankees.
And unless there is a radical change from what we all saw Monday night, that is precisely what’s going to happen Tuesday.