The on-field action is great, too, when we get it. The biggest problem there isn't the actual time of game. I'm still perfectly pleased with three-hour games, but there are some pretty damn tedious games that reach upwards of four hours and it's especially a problem in the playoffs when we're fighting for the eyeballs of casual fans. This season, it's three hours and seven minutes. Have you ever watched a game from a few decades ago? The average game time in 1984, for example, was two hours and 39 minutes. You just have to be patient, much like we've had to be these last two decades with watching batters take an eternity to get in the box only to see pitchers match that eternity while they stare at home plate. On that goal, though, there's still a missing piece. The rules attack issues from different angles, but the goal is the same. The ultimate, over-arching goal with these changes is to make baseball more exciting and more aesthetically pleasing to the largest audience possible.
Once I heard about the bigger bases, it was a no-brainer.
It took until Jed Lowrie set me straight in 2018 before I was on board with limiting the shift. I actually did some digging and found my personal push for a pitch clock dates back in 2011. I'm a huge proponent of all three and have been for years. The rules contain details upon intricacies, but the "yada yada yada" version is: Major League Baseball officially revealed Friday that there will be some high-profile rule changes for the 2023 season.
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