PODCAST – Hello Colorado Rapids fans! This week on Holding The Highline, we’ve got a truncated show as it is the first week of the off-season. Red has all the details on our commemorative Rapids Bizarro Season shirts through Bonfire. You can order them here. He then touches on Pablo Mastroeni’s brief return to the public soccer space. Then we have Part 1 of our RapKids Series. Matt sits down with Sam Vines to talk growing up in Colorado Springs, joining the Rapids Development Academy, the youth national team, and much more.
Colorado Rapids RapKids Series: Sam Vines
We’ll have Part 2 and Part 3 (Cole Bassett and Sebastian Anderson) in the coming weeks hopefully.
Our Bonfire campaign will run through November 3rd with the shirts shipping November 12th if we meet our goal. Shirts are $20.19 + shipping and come in three colors. The sizes are unisex, XS up to 3XL.
Holding The High Line is an independent soccer podcast focused on the Colorado Rapids of MLS and a member of the Beautiful Game Network. If you like the show, please consider subscribing to us on your preferred podcatcher, giving us a review, and tell other Rapids fans about us. It helps a ton.
Find us on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Blubrry, and many other podcatchers. See the full list of podcatchers with subscription links here. For full transcripts of every episode, check out our AudioBurst account.
HTHL is on Patreon. If you like what we do and want to show your appreciation, head on over to our page and become a Patreon Member.
We have partnered up with the Denver Post to sustainably grow soccer journalism in Colorado. Listeners can get a three month trial of the Denver Post digital for 99¢/month. Go to denverpost.com/hthl to sign up. This will give you unlimited and full access to all of the Post’s online content and will support local coverage of the Rapids. Each month after the trial is $11.99/month. There is a sports-content-only option for $6.99/month.
Follow us on Twitter @rapids96podcast. You can also email the show at [email protected]. Follow our hosts individually on Twitter @LWOSMattPollard and @soccer_rabbi. Send us questions using the hashtag #AskHTHL.
Matt Pollard is the Site Manager for Last Word on Soccer and an engineer by day. A Colorado Convert, he started covering the Colorado Rapids as a credentialed member of the press in 2016, though he’s watched MLS since ’96. When he’s not watching or writing about soccer, he’s being an outdoorsman (mostly skiing and hiking) in this beautiful state or trying a new beer. For some reason, he thought that starting a podcast with Mark was a good idea and he can’t figure out how to stop this madness. He also hosts Last Word SC Radio.
Mark Goodman, the artist formally known as Rapids Rabbi, moved to Colorado in 2011. Shortly thereafter he went to Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, saw Lee Nguyen dribble a ball with the silky smoothness of liquid chocolate cascading into a Bar Mitzvah fountain, and promptly fell head over heels in love with domestic soccer. When not watching soccer or coaching his son’s U-8 team, he’s generally studying either Talmud or medieval biblical exegesis. Which explains why he watches so much MLS, probably. Having relocated to Pittsburgh in 2019, he covers the Pittsburgh Riverhounds of the USL for Pittsburgh Soccer Now.
