Idle chatter while waiting to see whether it really wants to be summer, or whether global warming (or cooling, depending on your perspective) has given us a fifth season: Sinter.We’re less than two weeks away from Agganis Week: the annual festival that celebrates not only the legacy of perhaps Lynn’s finest athlete ever, but the accomplishments of hundreds of student-athletes from the North Shore area and beyond.For those who attach significance to the “athlete” portion of that equation, the Agganis Foundation has awarded $1,314,525 in scholarships to 813 student-athletes since its inception in 1955, and every one of the young men and women has been more than deserving. And you can be sure that for every one of those 813 recipients, there are probably three times that many who could have just as easily been so honored.The festivities begin Sunday, July 12, with the awards breakfast at Manning Field (new this year), with the softball and baseball games to follow.A night later, it’s the men’s and women’s basketball, with soccer to follow on Tuesday and, as Curt Gowdy used to say, “the granddaddy of them all,” the Agganis Football Classic, concluding the festivities on Wednesday.Please. Support these kids, who have made the commitment to play; and support the foundation, which, every year, sponsors these games and does its best to honor the legacy of everything good about high school kids and sports.Here’s a question (and perhaps someone would be good enough to answer it): Monday night, there were four Little League games scheduled, two baseball and two softball.We know the weather’s been horrible, but outside of a few brief spurts, most of what we’ve received has been that annoying kind of drizzle/mist and certainly not a deluge. Yet Monday night, the two baseball games were played, as scheduled, but the two softball games were not.This does beg the question as to why. Are 12-year-old girls more fragile than boys? Did it rain harder in Swampscott and Marblehead than it did in Lynn and Revere?Or is it, perhaps, that the leagues hosting the games don’t attach as much significance to the softball as they do to the baseball, and that they place a lesser priority on getting the fields ready for the softball?I hope not.But you couldn’t blame anyone for suspecting that.There’s a good Danny and a bad Danny that resides inside the Celtics general manager whose last name is Ainge. The good Danny goes out and gets Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen, and pairs these stars with Paul Pierce and brings us championship No. 17.The bad Danny publicly baits starting point guard Rajon Rondo.Can anyone tell me why it was necessary for Ainge to go out of his way to antagonize Rondo? Whatever he had to say, it could have been said behind closed doors, and out of the eye of the media.I hate the designated hitter. Detest it. And this dislike just gets accentuated every time interleague season rolls around. National League teams aren’t structured to accommodate an extra hitter, so they’re at a disadvantage when they’re in AL cities; and, vice versa, AL teams lose one of their hitters in NL cities in favor of pitchers who look as if the bat’s going to explode in their hands when they get up to the plate.Thank heavens this is over until the World Series.Oh, by the way ? I hate interleague play, too.Steve Krause is sports editor of The Item.