Are the Yankees waiting for the series to end before announcing their manager... or is something else going on?

I can see why "Cooperstown" Cashman didn't wait to fire Joe Girardi: The sooner Joe officially became a free man, the more likely he'd land a job. But thus far, it's not as if Destiny has been ringing his cellphone. Over the last 48 hours, Washington and Philadelphia both filled managerial openings, leaving Joe in the limbo of the lost, also known as Greater White Plains. 

It's possible that Joe is mulling his future and not returning calls, taking some "me" time before the next gig. It's also possible that with the Mets, Redsocks, Nats and Phillies having filled their slots, the music has stopped for 2018, leaving Joe without a chair... aside from one next to Coney and Paul in the YES Network barker gallery. 

But what's going on with the Yankee opening? When Joe received the pink slip, everyone assumed that "Coop" already had a successor in mind. It's not like Cashman to fire someone and then organize a search committee to sift for replacements. This isn't the East Syracuse Zoning Board; it's the frickin' New York Baseball Yankees. They don't accept slush pile submissions. So why the delay?

For now, let's assume it's due to the ongoing World Series, and the unwritten rule that teams don't make big public splashes while the games are still going. (Remember the wails when A-Rod opted out of his Yankee contract during the 2007 World Series? How dare he undercut that epic, 4-game Boston-Colorado sweep!) This allows the evil Fox Sports hype machine to fully bulldoze American junk culture throughout the month of October - selling insurance scams and watery beer - without having some team wave around the reanimated corpse of Gene Mauch or Terry Bevington as its latest face of the future 

Still, what gives here? Boston, Washington and Phily have all filled openings during the post-season - the Mets and Redsocks moving while the Yankees were still playing - without a blip of protest. So why haven't the Yankees made their announcement? Surely, Cashman has already settled on his man, right? It's like Robert Mueller's indictment - filed last week, but not made public until yesterday, right? We're just waiting for Joe Buck to give the go-ahead, right? 

My guess is that if Houston wins tonight, we'll have a Yankee manager by Thursday morning drive time. If not, something has happened within the bowels of the Yankiverse. Somewhere, in the well laid plans of Cooperstown Cashman, reality will have tweaked a gonad.