The commercials are worse in football imo because they directly interfere with the pace of play. If they take 2 minutes or 3 minutes between an inning it really makes no difference to me as a viewer. Occasionally you'll have a ridiculous stretch watching an NFL game where like 8 minutes go by and 23 seconds have come off the clock. Timeout, commercial, run play, flag, officials talk for a minute, command center guy babbles, oh, wait, official decided no flag. Coach is mad, he has to yell for a while. Ok, here's a play. Ooh, nice catch...or was he out of bounds? Let's take a look at this upstairs. There are sequences in almost every game where I just want to throw a brick at the TV not because of a particular outcome but just because of the pace, the obsession with getting every detail "right", and most of all, the number of times this obsession still leads to a wrong call. And if I had to single out MLB's biggest problem, I wouldn't even look at pace or duration. I'd say it's simply how inaccessible the local teams games are for most people.