Idle Thoughts, while waiting for Election Day, the high school football playoffs and for Jim Mora to be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom:

• Dr. Idle, Dr. I to his close friends, knows well that our corner of the world is the true hub of the universe.

Example: The recent death of the great Jerry Lee Lewis. But you didn’t know our connection to him.

He never knew that he unwittingly provided the greatest moment in the history of Dodd Stadium.

This was back in the days of the Navigators. One night, the home plate umpire took a foul ball in that certain place of the male anatomy below the equator.

As the poor guy recoiled in pain, stadium sound engineer Lefty Rothstein played “Great Balls of Fire.” (perhaps Jerry Lee Lewis’ biggest hit.)

The crowd roared. Dr. I almost fell off his chair. But the best part: The umpire’s long, cold stare from the field to the press box, where Rothstein was seated.

Miss those days. Rothstein was a hoot. The personal favorite: When the opponent made more than one error in an inning, he’d play “I Fall To Pieces” by Patsy Cline as the other team, you know, fell to pieces.

• Dr. I can’t wait for the World Cup. Why? Because he’s armed with soccer lingo now (call him Dr. I, Soccer Guy) thanks to the great Colin Delaney.

Delaney, doing color commentary on GameDay last week for the ECC finals, wowed us with “inswinger,” “too heavy on the touch,” “down the spine” and “Cruyff Turn” (an evasive dribbling move by former Dutch player Johan Cruyff.)

Dr. I fancies himself in the Harp and Hound with all the guys observing, “You know, that was a textbook Cruyff Turn by Messi, but his ball was too heavy on the touch down the spine and it turned into an inswinger rather than a lovely diagonal feed.”

• Last week, the New Milford High School football team traveled to NFA. That’s 99.7 miles by bus if you’re scoring at home.

“They should have made the bus pull around back to make it an even 100,” GameDay’s Casey O’Neill said.

• Presented without editorial comment: UConn made a 10-minute video for social media to commemorate its victory over BC last week.

• So Dr. I made a left turn onto Coogan Blvd. in Mystic the other day. A sign greeted him illustrating all the road’s “attractions,” which included the Hartford HealthCare building.

That’s an attraction?

Hard to fathom Walt from Waterbury turning to his wife going, “Hey, Marge, let’s go to Mystic and tour the Hartford HealthCare building. Maybe get a picture with the defibrillator.”

• Breaking: There has been a shakeup in the ECC concession stand standings. Ledyard has overtaken Montville. Kudos to Shea English and the gang for taking care of the GameDay crew at ECC soccer the other night. (She got us with the chicken tenders.)

• Observation: Soccer player A.J. Montejano of East Lyme executes the throw-in better than anybody around here in recent memory. Dr. I can’t kick it that far.

• Per a published report: “The University of Alabama is trying to get a general education core approved that eliminates the need for students to take a single history course, a single literature course and also a single foreign language.”

What, they’re not doing that already?

• Dr. I is beginning to see the CIAC’s greed as similar to the Empire State Building: You’ve got to admire it for its size.

Latest example: The normal parking fee on weekdays at Wickham Park in Manchester is $7. But for Friday’s State Open cross country championships? Try $15.

Imagine: Your daughter’s race begins at 2. You get there at 1:45. She finishes the race in 20-30 minutes. You leave around 2:45. You are there for one hour. You are charged $15.

• Election Day predictions: Lamont over Stefanowski (although Bob is a huge fan of the football Giants, which ought to count for something), Blumenthal by three touchdowns, Courtney by two touchdowns, Labriola by a field goal. Bonus pick: Hayes over Logan at the buzzer.

This is the opinion of Day sports columnist Mike DiMauro