The negative effect of preseason bragging in Major League Baseball 8 Articles

by David Skolnik

Preseason bragging has no place in Major League Baseball. It provides fodder for locker room gossip and anything that winds up in a newspaper is generally hung up on the lockers. Those that make brash statements before ...read more

by Bruce Bostwick

For the record, it is ok to be positive towards your team. Believing that your team won't win isn't exactly the type of attitude needed to succeed in the world. Players do this for one reason or another and isn't anythin...read more

by Tyler Huycke

As the majority of the people reading this article know at the end of this month major league baseball will start its regular season. Up until that point its spring training time. Spring training is what determines who sta...read more

by Mark Harary

I'm always amazed when I read on the back page of newspapers about some random player's boasting about how they have the team to beat this year. This morning it was Jimmy Rollins talking about how the Phillies, and not ...read more

by ibeatbrucelee

Bragging in itself is not the most positive influence a player or fan can give their team. By doing so the excited fan is predetermining a set of high standards that usually only predestine you to be disappointed. Jimmy R...read more

by Keith Smiley

There shouldn't really be any negative effects from preseason bragging, but if words get tossed around an offend some players and they those players get into a match of wits, then there can be some problems. There is a he...read more

by Ray Fauteux

It seems that some pro athletes just don't think before they talk. It's almost as if their ego's get in the way of their common sense. When you brag about how great your team is, you are creating problems for the entire...read more

by Mark Beierly

Jimmy Rollins should thank the New York Mets for collapsing the lead in the NL east. A few months back when winter was there and baseball season didn't even begin, Rollins proclaimed that the Philadelphia Phillies would be...read more