Idle Thoughts, while waiting for the world to improve collectively on its spin rate, launch angle and exit velo:

• Dr. Idle, Dr. I to his close friends, has a confession to make today.

His favorite part of reader comments are the non-sequiturs: inferences or conclusions that do not follow from the premises.

So Dr. I writes a piece the other day on racial incidents at high school games, the benign neglect of parenting and the necessity of speaking up.

"Gram5" contributes: "I'm sorry but can anyone really care what a 'local' sports reporter has to say when he barely covers local sports? How often were the local boys' lacrosse games covered this season?"

Gloryoski, Sandy.

How does one connect racial incidents with boys' lacrosse coverage without careening into a ravine first?

Anyhoo, turns out The Day actually covered 10 boys' lacrosse games this season:

April 5: NFA vs. Waterford.

April 26: East Lyme vs. Waterford.

May 17: Waterford vs. St. Bernard/Wheeler.

May 22: East Lyme vs. Fitch, ECC semifinal.

May 22: Bacon vs. Waterford, ECC semifinal.

May 24: East Lyme vs. Waterford, ECC championship game.

May 24: Old Lyme vs. Valley Regional, Shoreline Conference title game.

June 2: Waterford vs. Joel Barlow, state quarterfinal.

June 2: Notre Dame vs. East Lyme, state quarterfinal.

June 6: Hand vs. Waterford, state semifinal.

The ECC championship game was also streamed live on theday.com, complete with broadcaster Casey O'Neill, guest color commentator Ray LaForte, sideline reporter Keith O'Brien and three cameras.

What a bunch of slackers here at the ol' Day Paper.

• Dr. I noticed the other day that the athletic director positions are open at Division I Air Force and Division I Citadel.

Not that we want to lose him here, but shouldn't Coast Guard AD Tim Fitzpatrick get a look?

Fitzpatrick, with D-I experience, runs Coast Guard as a D-I outfit. In his time here, he's overseen the building of the Otto Graham Hall of Excellence, bolstered corporate sponsorships with a number of ideas and programs, signed an apparel agreement with adidas and got ESPN here for a football game, among many other things.

At a Division III school.

Not a bad resume.

• Apparently, "The Patriot Way" also involves performance enhancing drugs.

Shame, shame, shame, Julian Edelman.

• Dr. I is going to lose his sunny disposition the next time some talking head says Gary Sanchez "is the Yankees' best hitter."

Uh, no.

• Dr. I suffered a tough loss the other day watching Egypt, his new World Cup interest, lose a toughie to Uruguay.

But we'll bounce back.

• Full disclosure: Dr. I really doesn't care about UConn basketball in the middle of June.

But based on the coverage of early workouts in the Hurley regime, seems we're all discovering what a truly bad job Kevin Ollie did here at the end.

• And by the way, UConn: Get back to the table with IHeart and Entercom and find a way to get Joe D his job back.

• The great John Sterling outdid himself the other night with an addendum to his home run call for Didi Gregorius.

In addition to "Yes In-Didi!" John said, "This is the dawning of the age of Gregorius."

(If Dr. I has to explain the song reference, you need to take "music of the 60s" for 400, Alex.

• Tremendous GameDay challenge last week with Mikey Buscetto playing a 1-on-2 basketball game against Casey and the Sports Doctor.

Really, though: How is it that Casey and Keith didn't run the pick and roll once?

• Note to Brandon Nimmo of the Mets: Dr. I isn't digging the way you point to the heavens every time you reach base.

If God truly cared, you wouldn't be playing for the Mets.

This is the opinion of Day sports columnist Mike DiMauro