IDK about other clients but Tesseract and Mlem (at least on the 2.0 beta) both embed loops videos so they play the same as any other video
Yeah I find watching baseball (professional or otherwise) in person to be wayyyy more fun than on the tv. That being said the recent addition of the pitch clock does make things go much faster even on the tv imo
Yes I did test against known pans and it came up negative :/