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    Paul Sullivan: MLB tweaks its pace-of-game rules — but why stop there? More ideas to save the game, a few seconds at a time.

    CHICAGO — Major League Baseball announced some tweaks to its rules Thursday to move the game along and eliminate the dead moments that allegedly cause younger fans to tune out. The boomers who run the game are doing whatever’s necessary to pacify Gen Z and save the game, knocking off seconds of wasted time for the good of all mankind. The pitch clock remains at 15 seconds, but with runners on ...
    by Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune Dec 23, 2023 4 minutes
    Bleacher fans sit near the pitch clock while the Chicago Cubs play host to the San Diego Padres at Wrigley Field on April 27, 2023, in Chicago.

    CHICAGO — Major League Baseball announced some tweaks to its rules Thursday to move the game along and eliminate the dead moments that allegedly cause younger fans to tune out.

    The boomers who run the game are doing whatever’s necessary to pacify Gen Z and save the game, knocking off seconds of wasted time for the good of all mankind.

    The pitch clock remains at 15 seconds, but with runners on base it will be reduced from 20 seconds to 18, a two-second time-saver that surely the kids will think is “fire.”

    Relievers will get only two minutes to get their butts from the

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