Idle Thoughts, while waiting for high school football, college football, pro football, football pregame shows and football postgame shows:

• Dr. Idle, Dr. I to his close friends, has owned maybe five cell phones in his lifetime.

He has never destroyed one.

Erase them, donate them.

Terribly relevant information, to be sure.

Except that fans of the Patriots* might want to extract themselves from the Kool-Aid buckets and check in with the rest of the world, even if ever so briefly.

Teflon Tom* destroyed his phone March 6, the day he met with Ted Wells, the investigator.

But then, why focus on a vicious pack of facts when you can hide behind conspiracy theories, persecution complexes and the immortal "Ideal Gas Law?"

Your team is a bunch of cheaters.

Period.

And can't beat the Giants.

So there.

• It did Dr. I's heart good the other day to see that one of his columns ranked higher (but just barely) on theday.com's "most read stories" than "Stratford man accused of having sex act with shrubbery."

Small victories.

• Are you with me in rooting for a relative of Cecil The Lion to have that dimwit dentist for lunch one day?

• RIP, Rowdy Roddy Piper.

Really, now. Has there ever — ever — been anything funnier than Piper's Pit?

• You go, Wilmer Flores.

All fans want: to see players care as much as they do.

And Flores, in tears because of an erroneously reported trade, showed every Met loyalist how much he loves the franchise.

His homer in extras to beat Washington the other night illustrates, once again, why sports beat all.

• One of these days, my guy George Hall is going to get into to the Fitch Hall of Fame.

Dr. I can just feel it.

• Tremendous job by the Jets fan who flew a plane over Patriots* practice the other day with the sign, "Cheaters Look Up."

Heh, heh, heh.

• It's not easy being the Yankees.

Spend money and the socialists condemn you.

Don't spend it and your own fans condemn you.

Still, a PSA for Brian Cashman: This kid Severino had better be Tom Seaver.

• So the two equipment guys, McNally and Jastremski, acted alone?

Is that your story, Pats* fans?

Did they consult L.H. Oswald?

• Dr. I would not be surprised at all if this Waterford Little League team gets to Williamsport.

Kids can hit.

• Dr. I would like to issue the Red Sox a special commendation for finishing last three times in four years.

Can't be easy.

• Let the record show that Jen Welter, the first female coach in the history of the NFL, is also the smartest coach in the history of the NFL.

(She is a BC grad.)

• If you haven't yet, read Gavin Keefe's recent story in The Day about how Kris Dunn spends his summer vacation:

By shooting the basketball.

Repeatedly.

High school kids take note.

It's the proverbial lost art.

Want to get noticed?

Start making shots.

• Dr. I was thinking about a potential "Franchise Four" at New London High:

Jamal Johnson, Kris Dunn, Tyson Wheeler and ... ??

What say you, dear readers?

This is the opinion of Day sports columnist Mike DiMauro.

Twitter: @BCgenius