The game is on too late - regardless of the teams being in those time zones. When I was a kid in the 60s, they put the game on at a reasonable hour - heck, in school, they stopped teaching, combined classes and rolled the TV into the classrooms for the kids to watch the game until the bell rang to go home.
If I watch it at all, I can hardly make it to the second or third inning what with the pitcher taking forever between pitches, the batter taking forever doing his in-between bats gyrations - and all the stupid commercials, it's way too dragged out anymore. A great big yawn.