Flushing is Burning: Straight Up Stupid

Grace is back with another week of baseball! She gets into the good week the Mets just had. She also dives into the injury updates for the Mets, from the returns, and near-returns to the still hurt players and the players hurt worse than we thought. SHe also discusses the Phillies’ major injury blow this week. Next, two separate teams in two separate cities and sports made equally questionable decisions in the midst of Pride Month. First, the PWHL draft just happened, and Minnesota drafted a player whose online activity shows her to be a racist/homophobic/transphobic conspiracy theorist (and that might not even be the team’s biggest problem currently). Also, the Texas Rangers have already leaned into their barely-veiled homophobia by being the only team in the league without a Pride Night. But their header change two days into Pride Month feels antagonistic given what we know about them. Finally, Grace gives another Pride themed double movie minute. Two separate satirical teen films, one older, one current. They work well together in style and substance, and make for a fun double (or, with the addition of a film from last year, triple) feature. Follow us on Twitter/X @FIBPod, on Instagram @FlushingisBurningPod, and email us at [email protected]! 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices