Welcome to Flushing is Burning, the latest addition to the Home Run Applesauce family of podcasts, hosted by Grace Carbone and Christian Romo. Flushing is Burning is a weekly podcast examining the Mets, queer issues, and the occasional intersection of the two.

This week, Grace and Christian look over how exactly Mets’ pitching got hot at the same time the offense got cold. There’s reason to be optimistic about this team’s World Series potential, even if the record may not indicate the same.

They also talk about comments from Anthony Bass, Clayton Kershaw, and Blake Treinen and wonder what the purpose of an ally can be in MLB. And just when June couldn’t get any worse for MLB, Lou Gehrig Day passed with even less fanfare than Pride.

As always, you can listen or subscribe to all of our Home Run Applesauce podcasts through Apple Podcasts, where we encourage you to leave a review if you enjoy the show. It really helps! And you can find us on the Stitcher app, Spotify, or listen wherever you get podcasts.

Visit our Patreon for bonus episodes and to help directly support the podcasters whose work you’ve enjoyed for years, as well as unlock access to exclusive episodes, our Discord server, a monthly playlist, and more.

Social feeds are under construction! In the meantime, you can follow Grace on Twitter at @ODGuitar, and while Christian isn’t going to share his handle, he’s not difficult to find online.

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