Please please, hold your applause!

Firstly, we promise that’s the last time we’ll reference Smash Mouth in the title of a blog post. Secondly, and more importantly, huge congratulations go out to RSL goalkeeper – and our resident “homeboy” – Nick Rimando for earning the nod to the 2010 MLS All-Star Game next Wednesday in Houston against Manchester United (aka “that team in red that everyone who pretends to like soccer pretends to follow”).

• Click here for the full nitty-gritty details on Rimando’s selection by MLS All-Star Team head honcho Bruce Arena
• Click here for MLSsoccer.com’s special edition of “The Daily,” on which the 13 players that were named to the squad by Arena and Commissioner Don Garber were announced
• Click here to listen in to your radio home for all things RSL, ESPN 700, at 3:40 p.m. MT this afternoon to hear Rimando talk about his selection with Bill Riley and Spencer Checketts on the oh-so-appropriately named “Bill & Spence Show.”

UPDATED: Hot off the presses, now with said audio from the “Bill & Spence Show”: