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.

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 has 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.

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