Shorter commercial breaks, too..

[steveringo]

New MLB proposal would shorten breaks between innings - ESPN

They'll try to have pitchers and batters ready to go as soon as the commercials end...

Under a new proposal by Major League Baseball, pitchers would be required to finish their warm-up pitches and be ready to make their first pitch of an inning 30 seconds before the end of all between-inning commercial breaks, sources told ESPN.com.

Similarly, hitters would have to be in the batter's box, ready to start their at-bats, 20 seconds before the end of each break.

Both proposals are designed to tighten the time between half-innings, which has grown, on average, to more than three minutes, even though regular-season commercial breaks during games that are not nationally televised are supposed to last just 2 minutes, 5 seconds.

Baseball officials believe that if play is ready to resume moments after each break ends, they could shorten games by 10 to 15 minutes. Just those efforts alone would bring the average game time to below three hours without enacting any other pace-of-game measures.

Soon we'll be able to get to bed at 8:30!

 

[Nasty_Magician]

Finally the higher ups are catching on to this thing called "television". Just give it another 30 years and they'll start comprehending these computer machines. This is good news, it should have been news 15 years ago.

 

[moxie]

This is good news for Red Sox fans because your games were about to increase by 20 minutes due to all of Sandoval's fidgeting before getting in the box.

Yeah, I'm still sour