Current: A Rapids-Centric Podcast

The crew looks back at the tie against Charlotte and forward to Portland

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

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!

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.

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.

Another week of an indefinite number of weeks in quarantine and we're relegated once again to technology that vastly flies over our heads.

Brian interviewed Cole Bassett about his life in sequestration and tries desperately to tell us about it...it takes him awhile. He's so easily distracted. We spend the rest of the time chatting about other things, like how Altitude will probably screw us fans over anyway, and what's the interest level in some sort of Mutant Super League of all CONCACAF nations playing in one giant Pro/Rel league...It's just exhausting to think about.

Thanks for listening and say safe Rapids96

We take a modest step forward with technology this week and chat via Zoom, cuz that's what all the cool kids are doing. 

Without #Rapids96 news we talk future of the season and that of other sports either ongoing or coming up. It's all speculation, of course, but we ponder a life without soccer, a life without live soccer, and a life without soccer reporting.

We hope you're all safe and healthy in Rapids country. We can't wait to get back to the park.

This week the least technically savvy group of podcasters, dare I say, In the world, try to cast from our own individual homes.

We catch up with each other on our isolation activities and talk about our picks for the #Rapids96 All Time XI.

Thank you for bearing with us through the doubly rough period of fighting Coronavirus and our own technical shortcomings. We are working to increase quality for the next episode.

Stay safe, stay healthy, stay Rapids.

The MLS is 25. The Rapids are 25. It's about time for that quarter life crisis. With the league being suspended along with the rest of life in America, and likely the world, maybe--I haven't really checked--the John Mayer prophecy has been fulfilled. 

As always us victory in the home opener last Saturday against Orlando City and all looked well for the season. We at least have that to talk about before it spins off into whether or not this pandemic is Generation Z's 9/11. That somehow transitions into a talk about who made the MLS' top 50 all time players and the suspicious lack of Rapids names on that list.

As always thank you for sticking with us. We now look into the soccerless void of the early spring and try to figure out what the heck we're gonna do to fill this time each week. Any suggestions? Send them our way @Currentpod on twitter or email currentpod@gmail.com

The Rapids came out of DC with three huge points to start the decade and are well on their way to living up to the hype of this new regime. We talk that fantabulous stoppage-time win and look ahead to an even more promising home opener. 

This team might just have found that elusive chemistry they've been promising us lo' these last several years. Will this be the year that 2016 was meant to be? But with flare and skill to replace luck and grit?

We have a Kortne Ford update and some roster news ahead of our prognostications on Orlando at the Dick

Thanks for checking us out and #COYP!!

Before you settle in for the MLS Season Opener, get current with the latest interview with Coach Robin Fraser.

Preseason is wrapped up and the Rapids are back in Colorado where they belong...for a bit. Well, they're gone now, but they had been home this week to wash their socks before heading to the nation's capital to take on DC United in the 25th season opener this weekend. 

We say a respectful "Aloha" to Brian this week and a melancholy  "Aloha" to Marco Cummings who jumps on board to help us close the lid on this interminable off season (is it just us or has this break seemed to span two decdades?) and get in on the SWAG (Scientific Wild Ass Guessing) about starters and enders. Thanks for joining us and for all your support this coming season.

Let's get started. #Rapids96

The end of the beginning is neigh. As the Rapids wrap this preseason jaunt to California up and return to the performance enhancing snow of the great state of Colorado, Brendan and Brian discuss an uncharacteristic win for the Burgundy Boys and look ahead to the season to come.

As always, thank you for listening and #COYR!!!

Happy Valentine's day #Rapids96. 

The team has been hard at work in California scrimmaging and exhibitioning...and losing...as per usual. Everyone always says not to take preseason too seriously, but as we've been saying since we started in 2016..."Can't we just win once in a damn while?"

Seriously, other teams get to take preseason seriously. The teams that play us for example. 

But we move past the result as quickly as we can and get down to the matter of personnel.  There's a couple names on the pitch that are new to some of us, and some new combinations and positioning quandries to analyze.

Plus we have some Rapids Alum news and chat a bit about the new shirt and the old shorts. 

Cheers,

CRTID

This week we begin looking ahead to the Rapids invasion of California. We've got some preseason scouting reports to talk about and what to do if you wanna see the Pids on your computer.  Thanks for joining us again. please rate and review us on iTunes...we have a reputation to overcome. 

Cheers

Happy New Year Rapids fans. It's good to be back talking about the team, and we picked a good week to return. The club has made some important moves wooing talent to Colorado, but will they be as successful wooing fans back to the Dick? Let's talk everything from acquisitions to frustrations as we gear up to get back into the mediocrity mindset.

Cheers

It's been a whole month and a half since we at the CurrentPod have casted. Naturally, there was a lot of catching up to do. This episode is kind of like a bonus for anyone who actually cares what we've been up to over the holidays. If you don't care about our Christmas's and New Years's and travels, both past and future...feel free to skip this episode and move on to the Rapids-centric stuff,  

Cheers.

It's been a month and a few things have happened with the Rapids. Where in the world was Cole Bassett training, how's the back line changed,  who's in, who's out? We talk some Rapids alum from both players and coaches that have moved onward. Why the hell is Nashville in the West? It's all on the table, like some delicious Thanksgiving dinner...a Thanksgiving dinner that one of us was cruelly denied this year.

Happy Holiday's Rapids Family.

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.

The Dick was the setting of Tim Howard's final home appearance for the Pids, and he went out in typical Secretary of Defense style...Defending.

A well earned clean sheet and a three point victory over Dallas has put the Rapids in an obtuse playoff contention position as unlikely as the chance at getting a fresh pretzel on game day.

We talk playoff scenarios, (GO SKC!!!) and probabilities this week before we bid adieu, probably, to another roller coaster ride of a Rapids season.

A lively show this week as we analyse the impact of Tim Howard on the club and its attendance over the last three years. Did the FO squander his notoriety? Or did they get the best bang for their $6 Million bucks?

Brian went on the road to witness SKC in person and tells us all about sleeping in his car and the impressive turnout of Rapids supporters at the stadium.

We then look ahead to a must win at our last home game on Sunday as the Burgundy Boys host (natural) rivals FC Dallas. Can Timmy protect the Dick one last time? Is a clean sheet the best way to go out? We cover it all.

The Current crew talks TFC; what they saw, heard or was told about the game before turning the focus to the BBQ battle that is the Rapids and the Wiz...err Sporting KC. Are Rapids strikers cursed & is anyone else having a bad year like Benny Feilhaber? All of this and more...

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.

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.

What can we say. We went, we tried, we lost. Another fruitless sojourn to the dark side of the Rockies started off a respectable spectacle and ended a Rapids-esque disappointment. 

The Starting XI is a painful reliving of another lost Rocky Mountain Cup year, and Brian gets his two cents in too late on what makes a good rivalry.

Then we get onto the news of Robin Fraser named Head Coach, and the disappointing surprise departure of club legend Conor Casey. Admittedly we go a little long but we got a lot to talk about this week. 

We finish off the showgram by forecasting the weekend's away to the Newest of Jerseys as Fraser is thrown to the bulls in his unexpectedly hasty coaching debut. 

Once again, thank you for joining us and Go Pids!

Joined once again by Marco Cummings, we start off bellyaching about yet another draw that feels like a loss in Hotter-than-Hell-Houston. 

Hey, we think "Feels Like a Loss" would make a great new Rapids slogan. This leads us into basically crumbling into little snotty pieces over the spilt milk of the 2019 campaign. But is it too early to look ahead to 2020? Yeah, not much there either, we find.

A fond kiss goodbye to the Rocky Mountain Cup and a good little examination of just who the Rapids' real rivals should be will rap up this episode. Thanks for joining us and we hope you like the new intro and outro.

Wow. What a game to discuss this week as the Plague addled Dick was the stage of one of the Rapids' greatest goal fests ever. A 6-3 rout over the Montreal Impact is in the books and the Pids look ahead to a familiar foe. This time it's a grudge match and a home field attempt to settle the score with the San Jose Quakes.

We're joined this week by self-professed Soccer Whore Marco Cummings of MLS and ProSoccer.com. The starting XI has us looking in depth, at a dud of a performance in San Jose. Has the Casey Era already lost its luster or is there something else going on mentally with the former new-look Rapids.

We got tons of official fan speculation on the Lalas Abubakar Loan deal and Marco heard from a guy who knows a woman who has a friend who once visited Columbus, and guys, she thinks Lalas will be sporting black and gold again next season.

Brian heads out to training and gets some one on one interviews for you. And a dismal conundrum of an outlook for this weekends match in Commerce City as the Pids try to regain some traction against Montreal. All this and predictions to get you Current.

In the Starting XI we look back on a troubled NYCFC match in Commerce City. We talk Seb Anderson's heroics and he-low-ics and the maturity of even the best teenage pro soccer players. Could the Pids be falling back into another spell of bad luck? Is it time for that ol' PTSD to hit us fans? Or is the quality of play still keeping our hopes up?

Josh Wolff, the man the Rapids reportedly couldn't afford as manager has just been named the first ever gaffer for Austin. We talk about managerial prospects and why we may already have the right man for the job.

Then we look ahead to the weekend away in San Jose. The Quakes are uncharacteristically non sucky this year, but the Pids are non characteristically resilient too. We have very different opinions on how the game will go, mostly based on an updated injury report.

This week the Current starts with a look back at a Portland away draw that feels a lot more like a loss. Despite some outstanding Timbers goalkeeping, the Burgundy Boys should-a, would-a taken all three points from P.P. Park.

A long sought after Arsenal friendly finally takes place at the Dick and the Head Dick In Charge, Stan Kroenke is spotted in the box with his boy.

We have an exclusive interview with returning USMNT select, Jonathan Lewis and we talk about his stunning return performance. He hasn't missed a step since he's been away for what feels like forever.

A quick look ahead to the home match with NYCFC this weekend will get you Current.

C38's Dave Wegner joins us in studio this week to discuss what may have possibly but not definitely have been the longest game in MLS history. The longest Fourth of July game anyway. 

We then look ahead to the Rapids away match against the Timbers this weekend. It's likely to be a hard fought match against a team that seems to have found their form, and have certainly found their home ground. 

Plus, you won't believe all the events and activities Centennial 38 and the Denver Gooners have planned for this weekend in advance of the Rapids showdown with Arsenal on Monday. If you're bored, then you're boring.

We're getting in just under the wire for the annual Tim-dependence day bash. This year we face the New England Revolution, a team that mirrors ours in a lot ways. They started the season off rough and got better by shit canning their manager, just as the Pids have done. We compare and contrast the pair newly minted not-quite-out-of-the-playoff-run teams and make our score predicions.

But first, as always we look backwards to the huge win over LAFC last weekend.

Thanks for joining us and #COYP

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

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The Voice of C38 has taken their ball and gone home. Brendan, Matt, and Brian have rebranded the podcast you already tolerated in small doses and have named it "Current". Thanks for following us to a new platform, we will try to improve all the areas of the old cast that just weren't working and we want your suggestions. 

We explain the evolution, or devolution, of our decision and throw in some Rapids and USWNT World Cup chat so you can ward off the shakes for another week.

Cheers.