Ridiculous. I get that people enjoy baseball, but I can't fathom how you suffer it. Link: http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/theres-about-18-minutes-of-action-in-your-average-mlb-game/
I'd be interested to see a study comparing the actual in-game action in football. And some other questions: 1. Does each batter get walk up music? 2. Do they ever enforce the 12 second pitch count? Is it normally enforced?
The enjoyment comes from know if you were doing the pitching, the game would end in the first inning, due to fatigue of batters cranking them out over the fence. The enjoyment comes from knowing that, and then watching the best in the world hit it at about 1/3 of the time.
And 1/3 of the time is an automatic ticket to the Hall of Fame. Now imagine trying to hit that pitching yourself. I think actually making contact would be a win.
I bet it isn't even that much. But with some up tempo offenses running when play clock reads twenty maybe. Factoring in time outs, injuries, commercials, replays, etc the action:time taken is poor for football and baseball. Soccer is probably the best (if you like that kind of action ) and basketball/hockey next because of time outs and period changes.