As the final teams standing enter World Series season, the N.Y. Times looks at the unglamorous prep and cleanup around the victory champagne dousing tradition. The team clubhouse manager protects the room for revelry typically by rigging up plastic sheets. The Tampa Bay Rays’ clubhouse manager carefully prepared for their eventual playoff win by ordering special carpet, vinyl curtains, and even swim goggles (sent over by Nike) for the Tropicana Field clubhouse, but it was on the Chicago White Sox visiting clubhouse manager’s watch that 200 bottles of Champagne and 35 cases of beer were emptied onto the carpet by the Rays. Accustomed, alas, to visiting team champagne celebrations, the White Sox knew to hide the milk this time.