Dear Readers and Listeners,
We had snow on Thursday. Late March snow! This weekend we Torgs went to Wilmington, North Carolina to watch Kate Sears play in the Carolinas Classic All Start game that features North Carolina versus South Carolina. We stayed at a Holiday Inn on Wrightsville Beach that we recommend. I went from scraping the car of ice to getting a little sunburn that afternoon at the beach. Wilmington made a good impression on us. My daughter Charlotte drove down from college to spend the night with us and go to the game. Then she came all the way back to Boone for a night. Charlotte, my daughter Izzy, and I got a workout in at App State before she headed back to college.
My men’s NCAA Bracket took big hits with St. John’s, who I picked to win it all, and North Carolina, who I picked to go to the Final Four, both losing. In the women’s bracket I picked UConn to beat South Carolina in the final. Next weekend, we’ve got the Watauga Women’s Basketball team banquet!
Thank you so much for checking out the podcast and the content on the site!
Best,
Torg
Podcast Notes:
Introduction to be read to open the podcast:
- Welcome to the Torg Stories Podcast! This week we’re doing iconic sports venues, I’m going to talk about our trip to Wilmington and Wrightsville Beach, and we’re doing Ted Lasso Season 3, Episode 3 in which the Zava starts playing with Richmond. Anne, I added a new feature to podcast. I wrote everyone a letter. Do you think anyone will visit the Torg.com to check it out?
Anne and Bill Life Snapshots:
Anne, give us a snapshot of life for you in LA:
Bill Snapshot:
- Went to Wilmington, NC: what the beach is like, the hotel, the game, Charlotte came
- Really bad Kentucky Fried Chicken stop on the way home.
- NCAA tournament time: Men’s bracket: SJU and NC lose.
- Women’s bracket: UConn over South Carolina was my pick.
- Banquet is next week. Our sports banquets.
In the show Ted Lasso, the football team is Richmond. They are the Greyhounds, and their home pitch is the Dog Track. I thought that was a pretty good name. It made me want to ask you, what comes to mind when you think of iconic sports venues, either the name and/or the venue itself.
- Madison Square Garden
- Augusta National
- Fenway Park
- Hinkle Fieldhouse
- Wimbleton (Southwest London)
- Wrigley Field
- Cameron Indoor
- Lambeau Field
- Boston Garden
- Yankee Stadium
- Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Ted Lasso Season 3, Episode 3 titled “4-5-1”
Lots of storylines loaded up in this episode:
- Zava comes to the team. Lots of time passes and there’s a winning streak. Richmond–with Lasso, Rebecca and Zava–seem to be on a collision course with Nate the Great and Rupert. Zava doesn’t seem like Rodman anymore. Now I’m thinking James Hardin, Kawhi, Kyrie, Jimmy Butler. Who are the greats who probably live within the team with very different rules?
- Jamie struggles with all of the attention Zava is getting. Roy offers to train him. Anne, anything worth getting up for at 4am? When have you been that motivated, sports or other?
- We continue with the Collin story of being secretly gay and the last shot of the episode is Trent Crimm, the writer, seeing Collin kiss his boyfriend. What’s Trent to do here? Where is this headed?
- Rebecca sees her mom’s psychic who has a vision of a green matchbook and Rebecca having a family. At the end, Sam hands her a green matchbook. What do you make of that?
- Ted finds out that his ex-wife is now dating their marriage counselor.
- Collin in bed. “Your body is temple.” “I know who Zava is.” boyfriend is off to Dubai. “I am a strong and capable man.” Runs into the trash cans. Restarted the intro.
- Coaches, who do they sit? Who gets moved out of the front? Jamie or Dani? One of the tricky parts of coaching. Starters. What spot? They do all time favorite Julie Andrews characters. Love lists. Not our wheelhouse Anne.
- Jaimie comes in. Special treatment with big locker and comfy chair. Full house to watch practice. Zava not showing.
- Shandy still involved. Higgins has a name ready in case he ever DJ’d: damage control. Higgins:
- Zava meeting Ted: I am an empty vessel, filled with gold. I am your rock. Mold me. Nose to nose with Higgins.
- Zava wears a white tee shirt with a sun on it. Fancy looking only members only jacket. Zava worked as a kit man at 11. Breath with me. Everyone joins. Zava can exhale for a very long time. “We are now one.” There is no me. There is no you. There is only “the we.” and “the us.”
- Zava goes in the coaches’ office. Trent is there is his orange tee shirt. He moves the players around on the white board, bunches everyone on defense and himself on offense.
- Rebecca goes to visit the psychic Tish. Awkward white Russian joke and then Tish made two.
- Tish, the psychic, says to embrace the flaws and imperfections and in doing so create something stronger. They place their hands on the bowl. Psychic sees a green matchbook. She sees a vision of Rebecca upside down and she’s drenched. What do you think Rebecca’s reasoning for seeing a psychic would be? “You will have a family. You’re going to be a mother.” Hits Rebecca hard and she calls her cruel.
- Ted asks Roy for the Wordle word. He gives him the wrong one.
- Jamie comes in to talk to Ted about Zava. Beard calls him ironic. Jamie corrects him and says he’s being hypocritical. Do you want to take on Zava? (Durant, Hardin, Kyrie, Kawhi,
- Pregame speech: Collin out for Zava. He keeps rolling with, “I am a strong and capable man.” All the while Zava meditating. Reminds me of the character that prays in Hoosiers. “I am ready.” We say that in our visualization.
- Ted calls. Gets a Trump impression from Dr. Jacob. Pretty good impression. Ted finds out Jacob is around the house. (I did check Charlotte’s team’s score as I went in to talk to team vs. Lake Norman).
- Ted faces panic attack. Zava scores off the opening pass back.
- 32.23 field.
- Richmond climbs in the standings, from something like 17 to 9th. Brings new wave zen approach to the team. Ted checks out what Jacob is doing.
- Rebecca is checking out matchbooks in her house. What is going on?
- Jamie hasn’t scored.
- In professional sports, is it only winning or is there a line? Actually, there really isn’t a problem with this winning and the team seems on board.
- 36:04. good image.
- Looks like West Ham with Nate the Great and Rupert are on a collision course with Coach Lasso, Zava, and Rebecca.
- Zava has muscles.
- Sam opens his restaurant. It brings a lot of the main characters together. Sassy comes. Ted kind of wallowing in it. Jane arrives. Jamie wallowing in it too.
- Roy offers to train Jamie. Starts the next morning at 4AM.
- Shandy eyes Zava. Keeley eyes Roy. Rebecca eyes Sam.
- Keeley: there are better things ahead than anything we leave behind.
- Sam hands Rebecca a green match box.
- Trent sees Collin kissing his boyfriend.
Thanks for checking out this episode of the Torg Stories Podcast!