Dr. I needs some clarification about the 'Patriot Way'
Idle Thoughts, while waiting for the next "Stephen Drew, how do you do" from John Sterling, more tech schools on ECC schedules and Matt Harvey vs. the Yanks next weekend at Yankee Stadium:
• Dr. Idle, Dr. I to his close friends, would like to address all the Patriots fanboys/groupies today.
Y'all are quite adept at justifying, rationalizing and pooh poohing Spygate, Deflategate and your team's various other acts of chicanery.
Tell Dr. I this, however:
Does the "Patriot Way" involve employing a murderer?
Or this other guy Spikes, a clear paragon of wit and wisdom, who tweeted after the Hernandez verdict, "I'm confused about the justice system these days!"
Gee, Brandon. How about adhering to the old "Thou Shalt Not Kill" thing?
So go ahead. Educate Dr. I about the "Patriot Way."
(Can't wait for this).
• Dr. I has tried to think about anything else in sports more insufferable than Butler Cabin after the Masters.
And failed.
Two golfers, the Dictator Du Jour that runs Augusta National and the dictator's "friend," as he said, Jim Nantz, who all look about as comfortable as somebody with a bowel blockage.
Just once, Dr. I would like to see one of them belch on national television just to see the reaction.
Speaking of Nantz: Quite the soliloquy after the Masters last week.
The anti-golf folks need a new agenda, sayeth Nantz, because The Game is back, thanks to Jordan Spieth.
Note to Nantz: It's highly unlikely that Dr. I will come sprinting to the TV at 4:47 on a 78-degree summer Sunday, just because Spieth is three shots off the lead.
Nice kid. Nice talent. Everything but Tiger's magnetism.
Nantz may now resume his regularly scheduled job as Robert Kraft's spokesperson.
• Dr. I wouldn't be such a heathen to suggest Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis will be a lousy pro.
Just a few questions:
Who's she going to guard?
Can she get her shot off if, you know, they decide to guard her?
The WNBA is awash in athletic shooting guards and small forwards. Long, strong, fast. Not exactly East Carolina.
But Dr. I has an idea how it will work.
Defense, harder to quantify than scoring, will be ignored by the dullards, who will justify her greatness after every shot she makes.
• Has anybody else taken note of the road sign near Exit 82 on I-95 North?
It trumpets how Mitchell College won the 2014 NECC championship in "Men's Baseball."
Did "women's baseball" become a college sport when we weren't looking?
• If Amanda Zahui B, the second overall pick in the WNBA Draft, opened a law firm with German linguist Franz Bopp, Edgar Allan Poe, actor Richard Loo and singer Derek Luh, the receptionist could answer the phone and sing at the same time.
(B Bop Poe Loo Luh)
(And if Dr. I need explain this, just google "great songs of the 50s.")
• Mad props and bon mots to Coast Guard baseball coach CC Grant, who has the Bears very close to a berth in the conference tournament.
• Leave Didi Gregorius alone.
It's April.
Or as Dr. I likes to call it, "Red Sox Month."
• Note to the Connecticut Sun:
Please make sure Sara Buscetto of Waterford High is one of your anthem singers this year.
The kid can sing.
•Please take note of the social event of the season:
A retirement party for the great John McDonald, 16-year major leaguer, will be at Filomena's in Waterford on May 22 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $30 per person and may be obtained at the restaurant or through co-owner Bill Buscetto at 860-514-5144.
This is the opinion of Day sports columnist Mike DiMauro.
Twitter: @BCgenius
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