[johnchristopher]

I am answering to that comment, not the specifics in the article:

> watching a baseball game is like poking your eye with an icepick. there are too many breaks, too many commercials; thus too slow of a pace. they need to pick it up so that a game is shorter and the action is constant. viewers don't have that long of an attention.

I'd say the same about any sport for which rule modifications only benefit TV viewers or people with financial incentives.

[seanflyon]

When designing the rules for a spectator sport I think it makes sense to pay more attention to the experience of millions of viewers than to the dozens of players in a given game.