Assume its longer with TV ad breaksAverage game time last year was 3:02. This year they instituted some features to speed things up and the initial results were positive but I do not know if that has been sustained.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/maurybr...s-down-nearly-10-minutes-due-to-rule-changes/
And I've no idea how fans plan/deal with it. They just have to be very flexible, but it's one (of several) reasons I've largely stopped following baseball, but that's a larger even more off-topic discussion.