The 2026 Colorado Rapids MLS regular season is out. @burgundywave.bsky.social reacts. Lionel Messi could be coming to Colorado for the 30th anniversary home game. Robin Fraser and Djordje Mihailović revenge tour. No 4th of July game and more: burgundywave.com/2025/11/20/c...

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Denver Summit News: Home opener at Mile High Stadium, uncertainty about the stadium location, and signing Kaleigh Kurtz and Megan Reid burgundywave.com/2025/11/19/d...

The MLS schedule change is generally good for the league, but bad for Colorado Rapids: burgundywave.com/2025/11/16/m...

34' GOAL, R2!! Mamadou Billo Diop scores remarkably as it bounces off his back foot and it loops into the back of the net. Stevie Flores with a heckuva cross. Diop literally over ran the ball, stuck his back foot out and it somehow found it and went in. Sam Bassett was the decoy. 1-0, R2. #Rapids96

Inbox: Anders Dreyer wins MLS Newcomer of the Year. Ran away with it. Cooked with San Diego.

Inbox: Dayne St. Clair wins Goalkeeper of the Year. 10/10 no notes

With tonight being Rapids 2’s final home game, it’s finally lights out at DICK’s for 2025. MLS Decision Day and the NEXT Pro WCF were climactic. Season 10 in the books. Grateful. Humbled. NOGFC TID. I hit a DECADE in the DSGP press box come March 12. Can’t wait @coloradorapidssc.bsky.social

Colorado Rapids 2 win the MLS NEXT Pro Western Conference: - Catharsis for Erik Bushey - "Flipping the script" - The kids me the moment - James Cameron's knee slide celly burgundywave.com/2025/11/02/c...

Sydney Wathuta Hive: “He’s a beautiful footballer,” who is cooking in MLS NEXT Pro and looked like himself in a debut against a Liga MX contender burgundywave.com/2025/11/02/s...

Mamadou Billo Diop: The Best Colorado Rapids 2 Player You've Never Heard Of burgundywave.com/2025/11/02/m...

A Year Below Expectation HTHL's year end review of what went wrong for the Colorado Rapids in 2025. @rapids96podcast.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/holdingt...

Takeaways From the Pádraig Smith and Kevin Demoff Press Conference: burgundywave.com/2025/10/31/k...

Back again for the coaching search/off season press conference. I’m just here to ask reasonable questions. Hoping for reasonable responses and reactions.

Inbox: Alex Freeman wins MLS Young Player of the Year. Deserving. Glad another person I voted for win.

Inbox: Nick Hagglund wins Comeback Player of the Year. Lots of good candidates for this one. Chose him because of the severity of the injury and because of how high a level he returned to, contributing to FCC's success.

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Inbox: Tristan Blackmon wins Defender of the Year. Deserving.

(Matt made me post this, apologies for the terrible screenshot quality this is from an fm16 save from like 5 years ago)

meanwhile in an alternate timeline

Chris Armas will not return as Colorado Rapids head coach. Here’s my reaction and reporting, and no personal beef: burgundywave.com/2025/10/27/c...

Chris Armas posted a longer statement to the fans and about the club on the other site:

BREAKING: Colorado Rapids have parted ways with head coach Chris Armas. Sources tell BW the decision was mutual, with a difference in contract length. The club is formally undergoing a search for a new head coach. burgundywave.com/2025/10/27/c...

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Inbox: Drew Fischer wins MLS Referee of the Year. Cory Richardson wins AR of the Year. Got one right. I'm fine with Fischer winning.

No one good covers the Rapids and goes to retro night at the Avs @josephsamelson.com (If only we had recorded the Rapids banter)

Colorado Rapids Offseason Preview: It's never too early to start thinking about a November 26 deadline so here you go Rapids fans. burgundywave.com/2025/10/22/c...

Captain Keegan Rosenberry puts the 2025 Rapids season in perspective and discusses not being a regular starter for the first time in his career: burgundywave.com/2025/10/21/c...

Me and Matt have LOTS to talk about tonight. Including some unpleasantness, an apology, and going forward. Oh yeah also the Rapids tied and missed the playoffs. @burgundywave.bsky.social @bymattpollard.bsky.social #Rapids96

🌟 My 2025 MLS Award Ballots: 🏆MVP: Lionel Messi 👨‍🏫Coach: Jesper Sørensen 🏰Defender: Alex Freeman 🧤GK: Dayne St. Clair 🆕Newcomer: Anders Dreyer 🚼Young: Obed Vargas 🤕Comeback: Nick Hagglund 🫶Humanitarian: Jonathan Osorio 😮‍💨Center Referee: Allan Chapman ⛳️Assistant: Cory Richardson

Chris Armas has reached out to @bymattpollard.bsky.social personally as well as posted a public apology for his reaction to Matt's question on Saturday night. x.com/ChrisArmas25...

Update: Chris Armas reached out. We spoke on the phone. He apologized. I accepted his apology. He posted a public apology on the other site. I consider the matter closed. “Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.” - Seneca

🧵 Hi MLS BlueSky. This is @bymattpollard.bsky.social, BW Managing Editor. It's been 24 hours since this exchange with Colorado Rapids head coach Chris Armas. I've given it some thought. Let's talk about it.

The Colorado Rapids season ended tonight. How it happened was on brand for who they've been in 2025. Here's what happened and some big picture thoughts going into the offseason. The press conference was interesting. More on that later. burgundywave.com/2025/10/19/c...

Colorado Rapids could sell Rafael Navarro for top dollar this winter, reinvest that money at another position, and go into 2026 with Darren Yapi as the presumptive starting striker and I'd be here for it.

Podcast: Colorado Rapids Decision Day 2025 Preview burgundywave.com/2025/10/18/p...

Colorado Rapids Decision Day Preview: - Playoff scenarios - With Harris out, does Bassett change positions? - Stopping Son and Deni burgundywave.com/2025/10/17/r...

Full episode with Sam and Climate Professor Radley Horton on YouTube or wherever you get your podcast: 📺 youtu.be/r0rxsyp6PNY 🎧 mibcourage.co/47efJTX

Haji Wright brace leads USMNT's first comeback under Poch despite Cristian Pulisic injury: burgundywave.com/2025/10/14/h...

USMNT Australia Match Day -1 Media: - Poch and players preach progress - Team is liking the three center backs look - Pulisic and Jedi Robinson injury updates - Brendan Aaronson hung out with brother Paxten - Poch says why Zack Steffen hasn't made the cut burgundywave.com/2025/10/13/u...

Brendan Aaronson on his relationship with @usmnt.ussoccer.com HC Poch & proud big brother sentiments for Paxten— with a guest appearance from intrepid reporter Mark McKenzie and his Adidas F50 microphone. s/o @bymattpollard.bsky.social & @braidonnourse.bsky.social on the ❓s

“First time a @usmnt.ussoccer.com coach has greeted me like that.” - @bymattpollard.bsky.social Poch out here winning hearts and minds. #usmnt

Say what you will about Poch. He came over before training to shake hands with the entire press. I’ve covered every USMNT/USWNT game in Colorado the last decade. No coach has done that before with me. He even doubled back cause he thought he skipped me. He didn’t. I still have doubts though.

FC Dallas lose at LA Galaxy. With that, here's how Colorado Rapids can quality for the MLS Cup playoffs on Decision Day: COL win & DAL draw/lose OR COL win & RSL draw/lose OR COL draw & RSL loss and SJ draw/lose OR COL draw & DAL lose & SJ draw/lose

Noah Cobb and KDP dodged this big time

Podcast: Rocky Mountain Cup. Cole Bassett Left Wing Frustration. burgundywave.com/2025/10/08/p...

Looks like lots of media interest in Son coming to town with LAFC for Decision Day.

Had a really good chat with Altchek a few years ago when Rapids 2 made the Conference Final. He had really good ideas about where NEXT Pro was going on and off the field. Was impressed by him.

The Colorado Rapids lost to RSL but retained the Rocky Mountain Cup. They no longer control their playoff fate. Chris Armas had some things to say: burgundywave.com/2025/10/04/r...

Zack Steffen wasn't called in for the USMNT. Poch said some strange things. I wrote down some thoughts. Don't expect a Rapids player to make the World Cup roster. burgundywave.com/2025/10/04/z...