Idle Thoughts, while waiting for the baseball playoffs, Victor Cruz's return and for Thursday Night Football to die a violent death:

• Dr. Idle, Dr. I to his close friends, can't think of two people who deserve each other more than Donald Trump and his new BFF, Tom Brady.

The hater and the deflator.

Nice to see Teflon Tom espouses such a tolerant, progressive outlook on things, too.

• Dr. I noticed the other day that Teflon Tom ran his career record to 24-3 against the Buffalo Bills.

We pause here briefly.

BWAH HAH HAH HAH HAH.

OK. Dr. I is back.

Twenty-four wins against the Buffalo Bills. Roughly 40 combined wins against the Dolphins and Jets.

That's more than 60 wins against three franchises who have combined to make the playoffs, what, four times since Paul O'Neill retired?

Next time a Patriots* fan shouts at you (do they use inside voice anymore?) that Teflon Tom is the greatest quarterback of all time, remind him or her that ol' Joe Montana spent his career running from Lawrence Taylor, not the Buffalo Bills.

• Turns out it's not against the Geneva Convention for the Giants to score more points than the other team.

And yes, that was highly intellectual BC grad Andre Williams who scored a touchdown for Big Blue the other night.

• Let Dr. I be the first to congratulate the Toronto Blue Jays for defeating the Scranton Wilkes-Barre RailRiders to win the A.L. East.

No, really.

Could Joe Girardi trot out any more pitchers who began the season in witness protection?

Gloryoski. It's hard to say "we have James Pazos and you don't" with a straight face in a pennant race.

• Dr. I has always believed, with a few notable exceptions, one must be fairly bright to attend the University of Virginia.

Clearly, though, the person who compiled the Cavs' football schedule for this season graduated from the University of Genghis Khan.

UCLA, Notre Dame and Boise State in the first four weeks? Yikes.

• Picture it: Former Atlanta Braves reliever Rick Camp opens a law firm with Fitch cross country coach Shawn Towne, former Pittsburgh Steeler Josh Lay, Rick Dees (of the weekly top 40), former major leaguer Bill Singer, fashion designer Luke Song and Mets first baseman Lucas Duda.

The receptionist could answer the phone and break into song at the same time.

"Good morning, Camp Towne Lay Dees Singer Song Duda (Duda)."

• So how many of Ortiz's 500 homers actually came on the juice?

• Splendid feature the other day here at America's greatest media outlet on Coast Guard graduate Chris Soto.

Chris did wonders to help Dr. I guy Doug Henton enroll at Connecticut College as a student and basketball player.

Now can we just get Chris to run for mayor, governor and president?

• Casey Cochran is terrific on UConn radio broadcasts, in case you haven't listened.

• Congrats to Sam Cheung, among the highest character guys in Dr. I's constituency, upon his acceptance of the girls' basketball coaching position at Montville High.

• FYI: Blue Ribbon Magazine picked Kris Dunn as the Preseason National Player of the Year.

No excuse not to see the Friars this season.

• Can't tell you how much Dr. I enjoyed meeting senior football player Peter Kazibwe of Bacon Academy last week.

Utterly quotable and full of personality.

Some coaches and athletic directors in the ECC could take notes.

This is the opinion of Day sports columnist Mike DiMauro.

Twitter: @BCgenius