Idle Thoughts, while waiting for shorter graduation speeches, Ortiz to retire and the Supreme Court to discuss deflated footballs:

• Dr. Idle, Dr. I to his close friends, would like to know why the Red Sox still have this obsession with losing.

No, really.

They honored the 1986 team the other night.

This just in: They lost.

Of course, this is the same fan base that still hyperventilates over 1967.

This just in: They lost, too.

And the same fan base that defends the idea of the Yaz statue.

This just in: He flew out to Geronimo to end the 1975 World Series and popped up to Nettles in ’78.

So if Yaz gets a statue, what does Ortiz get?

Fenway renamed after him?

Dr. I would get it more if the Sox hadn’t won three championships since 2004.

So can someone explain all this?

• The oddest thing happened to Dr. I the other day.

He was driving along I-95, took the Allyn Street exit, and actually found his way to downtown Mystic.

Can you believe it?

• Now that we’re here in graduation season, Dr. I has a plan.

Cough every time you hear a cliché in a graduation speech.

Won’t be long until places sound like waiting rooms of walk-in clinics.

• Dr. I’s primary pet peeve in sports: high school basketball coaches who fail to wear ties or sportcoats during games, preferring a more rumpled look.

The list, however, is growing.

Pet Peeve No. 2: Mindless chatter from dugouts at high school baseball games.

Little League is over.

Dr. I isn’t saying a one-liner or two is out of bounds.

Just remember: It’s a dugout, not Romper Room.

• A happy, safe holiday weekend to all of us here in the Last Green Valley (A National Heritage Corridor).

• Congrats to two of the good guys:

Good Guy I: Luke Gabordi, the NFA baseball coach, on a fabulous ECC tournament victory. 

Good Guy II: Matt Spang, a senior at East Lyme, recently awarded a sportsmanship award from the Eastern Board umpires. Well deserved.

• Is it Dr. I or does that guy Steven Adams from the Oklahoma City Thunder look like Dwight Evans?

• Note to the Mets: The Yankees will take Matt Harvey.

 As is.

 • Dr. I’s guess: Kris Dunn to Minnesota.

• It’s been way too long since the last Yard Goats update.

• Tweet of the week comes from Dr. I cabinet member Matt Johnson, who helped coach a Waterford Babe Ruth team to the World Series two summers ago:

“The worse type of people,” Matt tweeted, “are the people at Dunkin Donuts who put your doughnuts face down in the bag. Come on.”

• Finally, a tip of the cap to the folks at East Lyme (lacrosse), Waterford (track), Griswold (softball) and Fitch (baseball) for very, very well-run conference tournaments this week.

Dr. I tends to get cranky over ECC business.

But the league was never better than this week.

And you thought you’d never see a kinder, gentler Dr. I.

This is the opinion of Day sports columnist Mike DiMauro.