The pitch clock is being enforced in the minor leagues -- and it's working

[Auggie]

2. That length seems right for nationally televised and playoff games ...

but the breaks for local/regional games seem shorter.

You wonder what MLB will do with all that extra time. I bet they sneak in several more commercials.

MLB's aim IMO is to perceptively change the game so it seems to "move faster" and is "more entertaining." The commercial breaks will increase in length as you suggest but the on-field action will seem to speed up.

I'll tell you where they got this from -- extensive focus groups comprised of Millennials and Generation Zs who whine about baseball being "boring."

That's why we have a universal DH now, why we'll have pitch clocks next year, and sometime in the regrettable future a limitation on defensive shifts, increasing the distance from the pitcher's mound to home plate, and larger fucking base pads.