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D-backs Make BIG Gamble with Zero Lefties in Their Opening Day Bullpen

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Mike Hazen built a bullpen with "no left handed relievers" and the hosts call it "a terrible situation."

The episode kicks off as a celebration, with party hats, birthday jokes, and the loose, half-started energy that says the baseball talk is already underway before it formally begins. The hosts move into the D-backs’ Opening Day bullpen construction and the strange choice to carry no left-handed pitchers. The tone stays excited, skeptical, and a little delirious, which fits the topic well. Damon Dogg is there helping keep the pace up. The chat is treated like part of the show, not a side channel. One commenter raises bird law, and the hosts follow that thread just far enough to make the joke work. Another viewer jokes about giving up haircuts and shaving for a World Series title, and that opens a small tangent about beards, gray hair, and how facial hair never behaves on command. Those side trips keep folding back into the main baseball conversation. They are clearly counting down to the start of the season. They mention that they are about 48 hours from Opening Day. They also plug the watch party at Crybaby and make attendance sound basically expected. The live-show rhythm matters because the bullpen discussion arrives inside fan reaction, not as a clean breakdown. That makes the concern about zero lefties feel immediate without turning it into doom. They sit with the tension, laugh through it, and keep moving. By the end, the show is still in party mode, still teasing the audience, and still making the case that baseball should be fun.

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A noisy Opening Day chat turns a bullpen shortage into the main baseball argument.

The D-backs' Opening Day setup turns on a real bullpen concern: there are no left-hand pitchers in the bullpen, and that choice hangs over the whole conversation as a live baseball problem.

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You want the Opening Day scramble, the jokes, and the D-backs bullpen gripe all at once.

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