Idle Thoughts, while waiting for high school football, college football and for Fox to concoct drama over the baseball All-Star game:

• Dr. Idle, Dr. I to his close friends, would like to share the following from his favorite baseball writer, Peter Abraham of the Boston Globe.

Peter wrote recently of departed Red Sox Rusney Castillo and Allen Craig: “Castillo is due $6.03 million for the remainder of this season from the Red Sox, $10.5 million in 2017, $11 million in 2018, $11 million in 2019, and $13.5 million in 2020.

“Craig is being paid $9 million this season and is owed $11 million in 2017, which includes a $1 million buyout of his $13 million option for 2018.

“They will ultimately cost the Red Sox $102,354,938 and combined to hit .218.”

Dr. I’s reaction to the news: BWAH HAH HAH HAH HAH.

And Sox fans accuse the Yankees of being reckless with money?

• More Sox news: Major League Baseball recently slapped the franchise with sanctions, including the loss of five prospects, for cheating over the way they signed prospects from Latin America.

Go figure: Cheating from a sports franchise in and around Boston.

Never heard that one before.

• Congrats to East Lyme High’s Matt Spang, recent named to GameTimeCT’s 12-member, First Team All-State baseball team.

Spang’s resume, in part, read, “ECC Umpire Sportsmanship Award recipient, Rotary Student of the Month, East Lyme Little League volunteer, Student Senate member.”

(Guess The Day might have gotten its Player of the Year choice right, selected protests from the gallery notwithstanding.)

Congrats also to Montville’s TT Bowens (second team), Tommy McDonald (third team) and Jeremy Sagun (honorable mention); Waterford’s Mike Burrows (third team), Alex Petchark (third team) and Justin Keating (honorable mention); East Lyme’s Bennett Coe (third team) and Dylan Feeney (honorable mention); New London’s Jeremy Santos (honorable mention) and NFA’s Andy Grant (honorable mention).

• Happy Barbara Major Day to everyone in New London.

Dr. I misses New London’s No. 1 mom every day.

• Dr. I believes theday.com has a hit on its hands with new show “Casey and the Sports Doctor.”

Watch the latest episode when Casey O’Neill tries (and fails) to hit Fitch pitcher and Princeton-bound Caroline Taber.

• Great tweet the other day from @FiveStarBasketball:

“Destructive players worry about: Who’s starting the game? Who gets more playing time? Whose name is in the paper?”

• Quite an impressive number of national media types who chimed in with tributes to the late, great Pat Summitt.

Maybe now they could actually watch a women’s basketball game?

• Minnesota now employs Dr. I’s two favorite guards: Lindsay Whalen and Kris Dunn.

• Just thinking out loud here, but this kid Jonquel Jones of the Connecticut Sun is going to be really good.

• Mark your calendars: Fairfield vs. Boston College at Mohegan Sun Arena Dec. 21.

This will be the first time Dr. I has ever rooted against Tyson Wheeler, a Fairfield assistant.

• Finally, spies tell Dr. I that Pete Walker of Waterford (and the pitching coach for the Blue Jays) has been pining for a mention in a Dr. I column.

Here you go, Pete.

This is the opinion of Day sports columnist Mike DiMauro.