Idle Thoughts, while waiting for the brackets, warmer weather and for Gus Johnson to stop shouting:

• Dr. Idle, Dr. I to his close friends, believes part of his job is to hold people accountable, particularly those who talk out of their tailpipes.

Example: Last week, an aggrieved Stonington person used the HCS (Human Comments Section) to declare,

"Apparently, most people at The Day only delegate praise for schools west of the Thames."

So Dr. I sent his research team into action.

Turns out that since the start of the school year, the icky, unfair and biased Day sports creeps have:

Staffed 25 Stonington events over nine different sports.

Live-streamed seven Stonington games in three different sports.

Offered video features on Stonington athletes Patrick Obrey, Dorian White, Ben Massengale, Jake Flynn and Cooper Light.

Aired video highlight packages of the boys' state championship soccer game and a girls' basketball game against Windham.

Chose Anne Drago as the Field Hockey Player of the Year and wrote a 600-word story on her.

Wrote a story (with photos) about the boys' soccer team's effort to participate in a food drive.

 Highlighted assistant football coach Kevin Panganiban, who carried an injured player from an opposing team to safety after a game in October.

Gloryoski. This type of unfairness might get Stonington principal Mark Friese to picket outside The Day building, wouldn't you say?

• Never let it be said that Dr. I doesn't see the sunny side of things.

At least the sniveling of baseball's owners and players has silenced the analytics crowd.

• Speaking of: Dr. I normally views the analytics crowd as fodder for "Ants Marching," the classic song from Dave Matthews, about people who spew and do monotony through habit. That's the analytics nerds. Heaven forbid they allow for more humanistic methods to determine a player's worth.

Example: Dr. I actually read this the other day in another state newspaper about UConn's Tyler Polley and Isaiah Whaley:

"Per EvanMiya.com, Polley coming in for Whaley has an adjusted team efficiency margin of 44.3. When he replaces Adama Sanogo, it's 41.3. These lineups are the No. 7 and No. 8 best five-man lineups in the Big East. Adjusted team efficiency margin is calculated by taking the offensive efficiency minus the defensive efficiency, which determines how many points a team would outscore an average Division I program."

Make it stop. Somebody. Please.

• OK. Can someone explain to Dr. I how Bill Scarlata isn't in the NFA Sports Hall of Fame?

He's only got seven more state championships than virtually everyone else in there.

• Dr. I isn't processing the hate for the Yankees retiring Paul O'Neill's number.

The No. 3 hitter on four championship teams in five years who got every big hit ever required.

The fans adored him.

And who cares about a retired number anyway?

Let's worry about other more pressing things. Like we all throw in a buck and pick the day gas goes to $5 per gallon.

• How many martinis did ECC boys' basketball coaches have before picking the league all-stars?

Example: How did St. Bernard freshman Amyre Gray not make first team Division II?

How did New London freshman Da'Shaun Phillips not make the first team Division I?

• Dr. I sends his apologies to Montville freshman basketball player Jada Cheung, who made the game winner for the Indians in the playoffs Friday night.

Dr. I thought she made a mid-range jumper to win it. Turns out the shot was a three. (The refs somehow missed it, too.)

Dr. I's eye exam is scheduled for this week (no, really.)

• Loved the friendly bet between Waterford first selectman Rob Brule and East Lyme first selectman Kevin Seery last week.

The selectman whose team lost the ECC championship game had to wear the baseball cap of the other school.

Yes, Brule, did wear the maroon of East Lyme and even posted a video of it on social media.

Sources say he did break out in hives later, however.

• RIP, George DeLeone. Never forget the night he came to Ledyard and did a chalk talk for ECC football coaches. Dr. I learned more football in one hour that night than he did in his previous fortysomething years at the time.

• The ACC announced recently that it is releasing a four-part series on Coach K, separated decade by decade.

Note to the ACC: If Dr. I isn't there, start without him.

This is the opinion of Day sports columnist Mike DiMauro