Podcast – Hello Colorado Rapids fans. This week on Holding The High Line, Spencer Baldwin (Burgundy Wave, the Denver Post) joins the show.
The trio breaks down the CF Montreal game. This 1-0 win marks a new club record, six wins in a row with six clean sheets. We discuss how this game was all too familiar. We give Donavan Phillip his flowers. We talk about Sayed Abu Farkhi and Morgan Whittaker making their debuts.
Then we look ahead to the massive Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Semifinal on Wednesday. We discuss the ticket sales so far. Mark and Spencer discuss what to expect from St. Louis City. Matt has thoughts on the Rafael Navarro discourse. We all do lineup predictions.
As a reminder, Rafael Navarro is cap tied and ineligible for the game.
Then we look ahead to Seattle Sounders on Saturday. Also we talk about the Akol Akon. Credit to Braidon Nourse being first on this.
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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