Dr. I clears out the notebook while waiting for Rajai the MVP
Idle Thoughts, while waiting for World Series MVP Rajai Davis, Jordan Reed’s speedy concussion recovery and for Thanksgiving, when Tommie Major will remind us that it’s not Norwich County, but New London County:
• Dr. Idle, Dr. I to his close friends, would like to start today’s chat with a fact (a welcome change):
The Yankees won as many playoff games as the Red Sox this year.
(Giggle, snort, guffaw).
• OK, so a friend of mine noted the attire of the NFL Network crew the other night in 46-degree Green Bay (parkas, scarves) and it just made Dr. I wonder: Were they headed for Minsk later?
• So it took Josh Brown to admit he’s a domestic abuser for the NFL to reopen the case?
Once again: Roger Goodell couldn’t run a garage sale, let alone the NFL.
And if Mr. Brown ever — ever — plays for the Giants again, the franchise ought to shut down.
• Yo, OBJ: This is not about you, pal.
So pipe down, give the ref the ball and act like you’ve been there before.
• From the Globe’s Dan Shaughnessy: “Darlings of the national media, a myth of their own hubris, the Red Sox have now won a playoff game in exactly one of the last eight Octobers. Can you believe it?”
• If singer Kat Edmondson married Snoop Doggy Dogg that would make her Katt Doggy Dog.
(Heh, heh heh.)
• Let Dr. I just say this much: New London High never made a better hire than Juan Roman as football coach.
The kids love him.
Role model, good man.
Home run.
• Dr. I was thinking about this the other night while he couldn’t sleep:
What if we petitioned the Oxford English Dictionary to permanently replace “yellow” with “amarillo,” its Spanish equivalent?
We’d have the Amarillo Rose of Texas, Goodbye Amarillo Brick Road and we’d all live in an Amarillo Submarine (Amarillo Submarine, Amarillo Submarine).
(Feel free to leave more examples in the comments section.)
• More from Shaughnessy: “MLB’s 24th-ranked payroll ($98 million, Cleveland Indians) thoroughly spanked Boston’s top-three payroll ($200 million).”
• Dr. I just doesn’t get soccer.
He’s watching Bacon/Waterford the other day and the officials actually stopped the game because Waterford goalkeeper Glen Faber was … wait for it … wearing sunglasses.
(Sigh).
So a few months from now, it’s OK for Faber to wear sunglasses in center field, but not as a goalie?
Make it stop.
• Note to all UConn football fans heading to BC for the game Nov. 19:
Entrance to Alumni Stadium requires one to genuflect before the Flutie statue.
Sorry. It’s a thing.
• Why is Pete Rose’s hair always disheveled on the Fox pregame show?
Can we mix in a comb?
• So how is Notre Dame football doing so far this year?
• Congrats to New London High alum Kyle McKinnon, who was named the Little East Conference Offensive Player of the Week recently, following his 246 rushing yards in a game for Western Connecticut.
• Finally, today’s random thought: “I used to care what people thought about me, until one day I tried to pay my bills with their opinions.”
This is the opinion of Day sports columnist Mike DiMauro
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