Current: A Rapids-Centric Podcast

A first time win in New Jersey happened last weekend. And on the debut of Head Coach Robin Fraser. You can be forgiven if you missed it as Altitude TV has been dropped by most cable providers here in Colorado forcing all you into the Soccerless depths of hell that us proud cord cutters have lived in every day since that network came into existence. Lets get the soccer talk out of the way so we can throw our support firmly behind neither the cable companies nor KSE and talk about how little we all should care about the struggles of Altitude TV. Also, Seattle, Switchbacks, and Underwear on this week's episode. Cheers.

We're coming off a late draw at Houston and heading into a Rapidless, MLSless weekend. But big news broke today as the Pids signed Coach to a three year extension. 

We have a lot to look forward to this year, and a lot to mourn from last year. Following a fantastic season for the Rapids some fan favorites have dearly departed and some future fan favorites have suited up...such is the turnstyle life of sports fans. Our credibility guy Brian saw the team in action in Orlando and he tells us what he's excited about as we look ahead to the second leg of the CCL and the season opener away to LA

Oh, and on Thursday, Marco had a couple questions for the Rapids media...

We're up!!! We're down... But then again, so is the entire damn league. Such is 2020 Let's talk an historic win at Rio Tinto, and a Rapids loss in Frisco. Then it's on to a double dip in California.  Will the Rapids swing in time with the pendulum or can we eek out six points in the next week? Only time will tell

In the spirit of 2020 lasting a thousand years, we look forward this week to Week 6 of the regular season. That's six weeks of league soccer in about as many months and naturally, it starts off with a Rocky Mountain Cup match. We discuss the merits of the rivalry amongst fans, player, and even the coach. 

With the abbreviated season just around the corner (for the Rapids), we fans are left once again in the doghouse with no real viable way (depending on your personal financial situation) to support our team. In this episode we offer Stan and Josh K. some reasonable ways to allow us to pay them money with very little effort on their part.  We're not asking for any rules to be bent or healths to be compromised, we simply want to be grown ups that care about each other and our team.  

The Rapids are out of the #MLSIsBack Tournament in grand fashion after a draw to MNUFC brings them short of glory. So What happens next in 2020? Your guess is as good as ours, but unfortunately you don't have a microphone and a free podcast publishing account and we do. So here's all our thoughts on the last game potentially being the last game of the season...or the idea that an abbreviated season could still happen. See ya when there's more to talk about.

And just as quickly as it started, the Rapids are headed home. The result of tonight's match with MNUFC can still matter, providing there's some sort of a regular season following the tournament. If the Pids pull off a win they will enter 2020 with 9 points and a shot at a respectable recovery. But whatever happens tonight, we're bummed to be out of the #MLSisBack tourney. Thanks for hanging with us

So, the Rapids choked on Sunday night.  Not to be outdone by the team, your Rapids-centric podcast choked equally bad. The first half of the show (recapping RSL) has been lost to the sands of time. We now join our podcast already in progress. Enjoy the preview of SKC.

The MLS Cup final is nearly upon us and we sit around avoiding picking a winner for almost an hour. Eventually, though, we ran out of Rapids stuff to talk about and everyone but Brian picked right. Cheers to the 2019 Season

Brendan and Brian fill the offseason void with some chat about Rapids players of Christmas Future. Who will we see leave the Burgundy behind, and how do we build a team around those left that can keep up the clip we started last month? Thank you all for your support this season. We'll be back fortnightly during the cold dark winter months.

The Rapids have closed out another season without making the playoffs. We do give the whole "Rapids Way" thing a rest this time, but we still have plenty to say about the state of the club. Thanks for spending the season with us and we'll be back in two weeks with our new normal for the off season. Cheers to you and to a brighter year in 2020.

Three consecutive wins. Two at home. Now Robin Fraser takes his wrath to his former club, Toronto FC.  The wins will keep getting sweeter for the #Rapids96 new gaffer (a title he's on his way to earning, btw). A double header week for the Pids hosting and beating both Seattle and LAG gives us as much hope as topics to choose from. Thanks for joining us week in week out. GO Pids.

This week we get you current on the Rapids disappointing draw in Vancouver last Saturday. How did they squander a two goal lead at BC Place? The biggest positive we took away, Zac MacMath ate some crow after spouting off to MLS about the match. Next we address a rumor, or rumour, that Newcastle United is actually in talks with Anthony Hudson to replace outgoing manager, Rafael Benitez.  We advise the club to barricade the gates and shoot flaming arrows wildly into the night in an attempt to keep Hudson as far away from this beloved and historic beer, er, um, club as possible. Finally, we look ahead to the ultimate test for the Pids, this Friday night's home match with league dominating LAFC. Thank you as always for listening and #COYP Follow us on twitter at @CurrentPod or email currentpod@gmail.com

This is a rebroadcast of the May 25, 2019 Colorado Rapids vs. Columbus Crew match. This episode serves as a test for a new brand and podcast host. Addendum: Rapids won.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/current-podcast/message

Well, Colorado is on fire, California is on fire, Oregon is on fire and Brendan just can't keep straight who the Rapids have been playing in the last two games.  With the near impossibility of local viewing of our Pids and the charcoal in the air, we're all a bit blazed and confused these days. Fortunately for all of us Brian remains, despite his ill-advised association with this podcast, a credentialed member of the Rapids Media. He was at the Dick on Wednesday and he's here to tell us all about it...and keep Brendan focused on the right opponents. Thanks for sticking with us, COYPIDS!

We meet in studio ahead of the #MLSISBACK tournament to talk some sense into the MLS. Does this tournament need to happen? Does anyone else get the feeling that money is trumping human well being? We don't know, but people on twitter claim to. People on twitter know everything. Brian had the chance to interview Acosta and Moor before they left the Centennial State. They give us some insight into isolation fitness and reclaiming the dominance they started the 2020 season with.  Thanks, as always for joining us

MLS is racing to be the first major sport to resume play...but as a tournament contained entirely within the city of Orlando. The details are still forthcoming but it sounds like it'll be a two week knockout competition in the sweatiest part of summer. The players and staff will have to be quarantined and there won't likely be any fans allowed inside. Is this something that we should be excited about? Or is it just a tourniquet applied to try to stem the loss of passion? We all bleed Burgundy, but are we bleeding out?

Another footy free week like every other footy free week. We migrate to various areas of our houses to complain again about the absence of soccer in the world. Well, to be fair there's some Budesliga and something about Sex Dolls in South Korea? Brendan is up on all the erotic news around the globe, so lets leave that stuff to him. Big question of the week is: If soccer came back in some kind of mini-remote-meaningless competition of third string player 2000 miles away and we can't even watch it on tv---would you care?  Hang in there everyone. Maybe this will all end someday.