perfectly:

“If you’re not at the ballpark for at least four hours, it’s not even worth your time and money,” wrote Jason Foster for The Sporting News on Opening Day. “Short games just aren’t real baseball. If it takes less than 30 seconds between pitches, or if there’s only a minute or two between balls in play, well, that’s just an unrecognizable sport. It’s certainly not the game we’ve come to love. Some people will tell you that the quicker pace forced by the pitch clock is actually a good thing, but those people are idiots.”

https://www.insidehook.com/daily_brief/sports/mlb-pitch-clock-speed/amp

The pace of the game is what made it baseball, and if you take that away then
you have something that isn’t baseball…and fans are starting to see the difference….
real baseball fans who actually go to the stadiums

The avg tickets cost 28.00, and baseball is a game where the whole family goes or
a group of friends go to have an all day experience at the ball park…so let’s say
you have a family of 4-5 go to the ball park. That’s 140.00, plus refreshments and
beverages, that’s another 50.00- 60.00….add in gas, traffic and parking. All of that,
and then the game is over in 2 hours? That’s a problem, because now they are
getting less of a product, but still spending the same amount of money they were
spending prior to the change. Fans are starting to see that it’s a rip off, because they
are getting a rushed experience

And with inflation being a massive problem now….

That ain’t going to fly.

Now people are starting to see why baseball ain’t just some game like
basketball and football to move fast and be sped up…those games have
never been all day picnic experiences like baseball.