Baseball is supposedly the national pastime in America. That makes it ripe for use in metaphors, so here's one for you to ponder. A certain kind of woman maintains men in reserve, a backstop against her main squeeze bailing. This emergency pool of guys is remarkably similar to the way the pitching rotation works in baseball.
Let's take a step back. In baseball, the bullpen is the area to the side of the playing field in which secondary pitchers await the call. To use a farmyard analogy, the men therein are for when the main man fails to perform - in the parlance, they pitch clean-up.
In the game of sex, a bullpen is where a woman stashes her prospective suitors, the ones she can call on should her starter fail to perform. He might also consider himself a free agent and leave for another team, in which case his ex will want a replacement.
I have been reliably informed that happy women in stable relationships do not maintain a bullpen. That implies every other woman who is not in a stable relationship keeps a bullpen, no?
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