Voice of C38

Holy Hat Trick Badj-man!

The new and improved Colorado Rapids came up with a huge win over the Philadelphia Union on Saturday--And Dom Badji scored the Pids' first hat trick in 6 years.

This week we break down the transformation of the team from first half to second half. Can the Burgundy Boys meld into the type of team that can effectively adjust on the fly? Or will they always need the halftime pep talk to re-focus their efforts?

A couple of concerning injuries have us worried going into Frisco and we talk about short or long term replacements in the starting XI and can Serna finally get his chance to prove his worth...again?

Thanks for joining us at the MLS' Greatest Tailgate, and thank you, as always for tuning into the podcast.

Dammit!

An early lead blown in stoppage. Why am I telling you that, you were there. What went so wrong for the Rapids last weekend? Was it mentality? Fitness? Mis-subbing? Bad Reffing?

Whatever you think the answer is...so do we. And we continue to wait for what we were promised.

Join us this week for an in depth, no nonsense dissection of the COLvSKC.

We can be critical, we can be accepting of a consolation point, but we have to gear up for another home game as we host those SOBs from Philly on Saturday. Let's speculate on starting 11 and injury updates.

Thank you for joining us again this week. Please follow us on all the mainstream social medias and tell a friend, yeah?

It's nearly game night and the Voice has a very game Knight as guest; Sir Richard Fleming, Play by Play Announcer of the Colorado Rapids.

We talk with Richard about the twisted road he followed to Colorado from England and how this American Life is treating him and his family.

If you've never had the pleasure of speaking with Richard, you are in for quite a treat for there aren't many more charming and witty as he. And he tells us about his unforgettable introduction to Centennial 38.

Bidding Sir Rich adieu, we move on to the long awaited home opener for the 2018 season. Brendan has been to training and he and Brian have thoughts about the cementing of our starting 11.

Colin will break down Sporting Kansas City's dubious start to the season and we pontificate on the Rapids ability to take advantage of their all-together not together defense.

Finally, a game of "KC Rapper or SKC Baller". Kansas City is home to a rather impressive amount of up and coming rappers. They bridge race lines (and talent) like their city bridges the mighty Missouri and inspire us with the love of their town. Play along as we try to guess who is a Kansas Rapper and who is a SKC player with an internet generated rap name.

Thanks for joining the Voice and COYPIDS!!!

Just as March in Colorado is said to come in like a lamb and go out like a lion, we can only hope the Rapids season follows the same evolution.

The first game of 2018 wasn't a bad game-- It was an unlucky game. Without giving too much credence to the cosmic idea of "luck"; sometimes bad things just happen. That's football. That's sport. Hell, that's life.

The Rapids did show us the fruits of a short off-season of team building, and keeping that in mind, I don't think we can legitimately be angry with the result. We can just be angry AT the result.

Moving forward we look to another bye week and hope the upcoming Dick's debut is fireworks on the pitch.

There's another viable rumor to discuss out of China's Super League; could this be the veteran striker the Rapids have been missing (for faaaaaaar too long)?

Thanks for joining us for another week of Pidcasting. We can't wait to see everyone out on the 24th!! Go Pids!!!!

The MLS 2018 season has officially kicked off...for everyone but us (and Chicago too I guess).

What was supposed to be our home opening weekend fell by the wayside to make room for some preseason competition and we continue to feel the weight of the waiting.

We do have a road opener to look forward to though, and we are joined by Colorado Rapids Director of Communications, Ryan Madden to discuss the anticipated payoff of the Great Experiment.

Also joining us is C38 Grand High Poobah, Dave Wegner to discuss the season opener watch party.

The cast gives their predictions for the season writ large as we look at a hobbled New England team on Saturday.

Thanks for joining us again this week and please share the good word with any and all Rapids fans you know.

Cheers, CRTID!

The CONCACAF Champions League is done as far as the Rapids are concerned and the pundits are out to criticize all the changes they haven't paid any attention to over the off season.

Let's talk about Coach Hudson's CCL attitude and the offensive launched against him on twitter. Then, the MLS has come out with their first power rankings of the year and the Rapids land in the basement without much explanation.

But wait there's more! The MLS has also come out with its five most improved teams of 2018 and the Rapids, while having bolstered the roster in an unprecedented off season rebuild, DID NOT make that list either.

So bring your inferiority complex and join us for some reality for an hour or so. There's a lot to discuss as we look towards the beginning of the real campaign of 2018.

With Aigner and Nana out of the country in pursuit of their green cards, Brian and Matt chat about which Rapid they'd marry to expedite the process.

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COYP!

It was the best of soccer, it was the worst of soccer.

Alright that's a huge exaggeration but with all the tweets about "a tale of two halves", how could we not name the episode that?

There was a Rapids game on Tuesday. That's good.

It was against Toronto. That's bad.

The Rapids looked better than they have in two decades. That's good.

Toronto scored two unanswered goals. That's bad.

It was the coldest MLS game in history. That's good and bad.

If you were there you have yet another instance of bragging rights. Add this game, which has yet to be cleverly named, to Snow Classicos I and II to your badges of honor; you are the best fans in soccer.

So tune in and let's talk about what we saw in both those halves. A handful of starters mixed with some depth all still learning to gel as a team. The truly deep and self-delusional among us overwhelmingly chose to see the positives in this game.

Bottom line was the Rapids looked like a real professional soccer club that has finally risen up to the demands of the modern league.

And that's not nothing.

Its the first game of the last games before the first game of the lesser competition!!!!

The Rapids finally have a preseason game to talk about. One against Sporting AZ FC that we weren't allowed to watch. They did however manage 9 unanswered goals in a 120 minute route with a couple of braces. Well done.

There's been some more movement with the newbies and a new rumor, again, out of England as our striker dreams inch ever closer to the end of time...until the summer window.

The new kit is out and all the cool kids like it. We talk sharpness vs. dynamicism and would we buy one or not.

Colin's Corner reminds us of Toronto's 2017 might and what the Pids will be facing in their CCL leg one match on Tuesday.

Then, naturally...CCL talk. It's called a segue people.

We went, we played...we lost. Twice.

We know pre-season results don't matter but can't they not matter with a win once in a damn while?

We talk about what we saw from Casa Grande--it ain't much. And we talk a bit about what we hope the team and coaches got out of the results.

We pull out a list of all the strikers that turned us down for the prom and, as hope springs eternal, we glean positives from the thundering silence we still hear from a few.

This brings out the skeptic in Colin and he gets piled on by the entire cast and live-stream audience for his lack of faith in the squad.

Finally, we wrap up the "I Shall Return" segment with Austin's dissertation on why he returns to the Dick thru hell and highwater...and always will.

A day shy of the first Rapids preseason scrimmage. But since we can't see it anyway, we speculate like hell about what the possible starting lineups could look like.

But why stop there? With so much new talent and so many unknown (to us) new puzzle pieces, why not take the speculation all the way into open cup too.

Part 2 of the VoC38 Children's Classic "How I Spent My Offseason" pays homage to the anniversary of Poe's "The Raven".

And Colin is up to bat with his installment of why he shall return a season ticket holder for another year.