Podcast – Hello Colorado Rapids fans. This week on Holding The High Line, it’s MLS Deadline Day! We get caught up on all the transfers from the past week, official and expected.
First we break down the Rafael Navarro trade to St. Louis City. There’s pros and cons. We discuss Rafa’s legacy with Colorado Rapids and why the Rapids Math makes sense even if it’s a tough decision. There’s a missing piece of information given the contract extension negotiations broke down. We try to get to the bottom of this decision, which seemed unthinkable a week ago.
Sayed Abu Farkhi is official. Rabbi thinks this is a sign he’s be a center forward. Red did his research on Morgan Whittaker. And we try to have some good thoughts on Ibrahim Sadiq. There’s some big picture takeaways about this window, how it ended, and what the winter transfer window will look like.
Then we finally discuss the Rocky Mountain Cup. For the first time ever, the Pids have won it three years in a row. RSL were so bad. We have thoughts on Pablo Mastroeni and Diego Luna.
We talk about the news about every MLS team returning to the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. Also KSE bought the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. We think this a bad sign for the Rapids and proves what we’ve known for years.
Lastly, we preview Columbus Crew and take some listener questions. #AskHTHL
About the hosts:
Matt Pollard is the Managing Editor of Burgundy Wave, having overseen the site’s move to being independent in April 2023. He moved to Denver in 2015 and has covered the Rapids since 2016. An engineer and environmentalist by day, when he’s not watching or writing about soccer, he’s hiking or skiing in the mountains. He previously wrote for Last Word on Sports, covering STLFC, the Rapids, MLS and the USMNT.
Mark Goodman, known as Rapids Rabbi or Soccer Rabbi, lived in Colorado from 2011-2018. He became an MLS Sicko after seeing Lee Nguyen of the New England Revolution pull off some silky moves at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park. He’s a professional rabbi during the day and the author of the well regarded Backpass series, which started at Burgundy Wave. He watches the Pids from a far, having moved to Pittsburgh. He also covers the Pittsburgh Riverhounds of the USL Championship for Pittsburgh Soccer Now.
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