Idle Thoughts, while waiting for the College World Series, the pollen to blow away and for all bicycles to be banned from Connecticut roads:

• Dr. Idle, Dr. I to his close friends, summons the cornfield on “Hee Haw” for a big salute (saaaah-loooot!) to the folks in Montville, who are quickly adopting the new “Wolves” nickname at the high school.

Fans at the girls’ lacrosse state tournament game the other day punctuated each Montville goal with wolf howls (“ahhhhh-ooooooooh”), a clever and wonderful example of blooming where you’re planted.

“Ahhhhh-oooooooh” needs to become a thing in Montville. (Seems well on the way.)

Not everybody in Montville is happy with the nickname change. But since it’s here, we heed the words of Stephen Stills: “If you can’t be with the one you love, honey, love the one you’re with.”

• Major shoutout to the athletic directors in the ECC for incredibly well run conference tournaments last week. Well done by Phil Orbe (New London, baseball), Steve Cravinho (Griswold, softball), Jan Voland (girls’ track, Plainfield), Roy Wentworth (boys’ track, NFA), Chris Landry (Waterford, boys’ lacrosse), Tim Dilweg (Montville, girls’ lacrosse), Sean Saucier (Woodstock, boys’ tennis) and Bryan Morrone (Stonington, girls’ tennis).

From all of us at The Day and GameDay: It is much appreciated.

• Trivia: Who is the only Red Sox pitcher ever to win a Gold Glove? (Answer below).

• Dr. I wonders: How did that “stale” athletic department in East Lyme manage to produce ECC tournament champs in baseball and girls’ lacrosse this spring?

It’s a miracle!

• In the old days, Dr. I used to love watching Billy Martin get tossed.

Now Dr. I eyerolls watching the nightly Aaron Boone Show.

• Dude of the Week: Buck Showalter. Difficult though it may have been watching that dope Marcus Stroman gyrate toward the Mets dugout the other night — Stroman held his old team two runs in eight innings — Showalter told the media that the best way to avoid that in the future is to “play better.”

As for Mr. Stroman, well, he illustrates that a Duke education doesn’t go as far as it used to.

• NCAA women’s lacrosse national championship game Sunday at noon: icky, rotten Northwestern vs. gutty, gritty Boston College.

• News item: Floyd Mayweather Jr. will face John Gotti III in a boxing match June 11 in Sunrise, Fla.

Dr. I wonders: What happens to Mayweather if he (gulp) wins?

• How long until FanDuel sets an over/under on how long it takes Blumenthal or Murphy to appear nightly on the 6 o’clock news?

Dr. I would set it at about 6:06 every night and take the under.

• If you’re keeping score at home, this is what was required to watch the New York Yankees last week:

Sunday: Peacock. Tuesday: YES. Wednesday: Amazon Prime Video. Thursday: YES. Friday: Apple TV+.

Ridiculous.

• If former women’s tennis player Kiki Bertens of the Netherlands married former Yankees left-hander Jimmy Key, that would make her Kiki Key.

• Tremendous scene the other night at Dodd Stadium. The last pitcher to defeat East Lyme baseball this season was Waterford’s Matt Ory, whose Instagram page (framesbymatt) shows his gifted abilities in sports design and photography.

Anyway, Ory was one of GameDay’s camera operators for the ECC title game stationed in … East Lyme’s dugout.

• What keeps Dr. I up at night: Why must trash pickup happen in the morning while school buses are doing their thing?

The other day, Dr. I hit the trifecta bringing Little I to school: buses stopping every 10 feet, trash pickup every 15 feet and bicycle people in the middle of the road.

A normal eight-minute drive to school clocked in at a crisp 22.

• Trivia answer: Mike Boddicker, 1990.

This is the opinion of Day sports columnist Mike DiMauro