The pitch clock saved baseball, and the purists should just say thank you

The exact same people who spent years complaining the games were too long are now upset that the fix worked. The pitch clock trimmed the dead time between pitches, not the baseball itself. The action is denser, the tension holds, and casual fans can actually make it to the ninth. Nothing about the sport's soul lived in a pitcher walking around the mound for twenty seconds. Tradition is worth protecting when it adds something. Standing around wasn't tradition, it was just a bad habit everyone got used to. Leanblog's pace-of-play analysis has the actual splits, and The Week's take on tradition versus the clock covers the purist side fairly.