Idle Thoughts, while waiting for Gerrit Cole to redeem himself, warmer weather and for Antonio Brown's trip to therapy:

• Dr. Idle, Dr. I to his close friends, eagerly awaits the meeting between the CIAC and DPH this week. Nobody leaves the room until Kumbaya.

Because the current rules for high school kids who test positive for COVID need to be tweaked. (Actually they need to be inside a bus that goes careening off a cliff.)

Essentially, they make little distinction between the vaccinated and non-vaccinated and require a 7-day return-to-play protocol that can leave asymptomatic, fully vaccinated kids on the sidelines for 17 days.

One high school coach wrote this: "Athletes who test positive have a 10-day quarantine from sports and a 7-day protocol to return after that. But the same kid can return to school in five days and play basketball in gym class. How does that make sense?"

This just in: It doesn't. So fix it.

• Sunday marks a joyous occasion for the New York Football Giants.

The last day of the Dave Gettleman Era.

Note to Dave: Don't let the doorknob leave a lasting impression.

Note to Dave's successor: Two irritable offensive linemen, an edge rusher and a new punter. In that order.

• Talk about irresponsible use of social media. Someone posted this to Twitter the other day:

"Stan Musial's numbers in 1946: 376 average, .450 on base percentage, 702 slugging percentage, 46 doubles, 18 triples 39 homers, 131 RBI."

But what was his launch angle? What was his BABIP? What was his WAR? What was his wOBA?

How is Dr. I supposed to tell that Musial had a great season without those terribly relevant metrics?

• Full disclosure: Dr. I has perhaps left the Birdseye occasionally and made a late-night stop to Taco Bell.

Big news here. Taco Bell has announced a new "Taco Lovers Pass," the ability to get a taco for 30 consecutive days for $10 total. Just download the app.

(What other column provides such practical information?)

• Dr. I doesn't want to get political. But here is his idea to fix the USA:

Fire Biden, send Trump to Elba and hire Australian prime minister Scott Morrison, who sent the best message of all last week to the unvaccinated Novak Djokovic:

You are not welcome at the Australian Open without a vaccine. Your talent is irrelevant. Get out.

"There should be no special rules for Novak Djokovic at all," Morrison said.

Bravo. Or as they say in Australia, "Aussie, Aussie Aussie! Oi Oi Oi!"

• News from Curt Schilling:

The Blowhard Who Used To Throw Hard has informed the Red Sox that should he get enough votes, he will not enter the Hall of Fame as a Red Sox.

Seems that Mentally Ill Schill has some beef with ownership.

This is the perfect time for someone in the BoSox organization to come out and admit what we already know: It was Heinz 57 on his sock that night in 2004, not blood.

• The first 15 minutes of high school basketball practices across the world should feature film of the late, great Sam Jones.

That square on the glass exists for a reason. Use it.

• It doesn't get any better around here than Andy Walker's player introductions before basketball games at Waterford.

In addition to the elementary school, we get the towns of origin for the kids' ancestors.

Highlight this year: Jordan Elci "from Vaderstad, Ostergotland, Sweden." (Complete with Scandinavian accent.)

Tremendous.

• Never realized this until reading the obituary for the great Sidney Portier.

The year 1967 produced the following movies: Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, The Graduate, In The Heat Of The Night, Bonnie & Clyde and Cool Hand Luke.

Does it get better than that?

• Happy 26th birthday to Marcus Outlow, former NFA great and current Ledyard assistant coach in two sports.

Good guy, great family.

• Finally: The ECC Wrestling Tournament will not be the same this year without the great Nancy Kosman.

Nancy used to coordinate all the food for the players, coaches and fans, tending to hundreds of other details. A wonderful person.

Here's hoping she stays on the mend after an illness.

This is the opinion of Day sports columnist Mike DiMauro