Brady Smiley

Union College (KY) alum. I’m just here to love Jesus, teach kids and win baseball games

[Brady Smiley @CoachSmiley29]

One of my favorite days of the year!

[Simon Kenton Baseball @SKHSbaseball]

5 inning final on Futures Day

SK 10 - St. Henry 0

(W)Dennis: 4IP, 1H, 0R, 6K, 2BB

Dennis: 2-2, 2B, 2R, RBI, BB
J. Johnson: 2-3, 2B, R, 2RBI
Lo. Lawson: 2-3, R, RBI, K
Ortiz: 2-3, R, 2RBI

Thanks to everyone who came out. Tag #FuturePioneersDay in pictures if you have them!

[Brady Smiley @CoachSmiley29]

Great night to be a Pioneer at all levels!

[Simon Kenton Baseball @SKHSbaseball]

🎉CONGRATULATIONS 🎉

Jackson Rader and Colton Wiseman combined for a perfect game and Jaxon Parrott threw a 1BB no-hitter with an immaculate inning against Grant. Co.

[Brady Smiley @CoachSmiley29]

My favorite baseball player of all time. No one has ever had more fun playing the game. Forever Dat Dude, forever a Red

[Cincinnati Reds @Reds]

Back on his infield.

@DatDudeBP

[Brady Smiley @CoachSmiley29]

Just my 2 cents. This is the result of the push toward early specialization. Everyone I knew played multiple sports until sophomore year or later but now we have 5th/6th graders throwing year round and people wonder why their arm is shot at 16.

[Travis Clark @tclarkpitching]

There’s a major workload management issue in highschool baseball right now…and for some reason no one is talking about it

[Simon Kenton Baseball @SKHSbaseball]

🚨This week🚨

Come out this Friday (4/17) for the 2nd annual Stand Up 2 Cancer game as @Conner_Baseball joins us in supporting the fight against cancer

Game time - 5pm

Proceeds from the game will be donated to the Franzen Colon Cancer Research Fund

[Brady Smiley @CoachSmiley29]

Seems to be a great game every time we play Cooper. Team win tonight.

[Simon Kenton Baseball @SKHSbaseball]

Final: SK 2 - Cooper 0

(W) Piper: 4IP, 3H, 0R, 9K, 2BB
(S) Young: 3IP, 1H, 0R, 2K, BB

Ortiz: 1-2, HR, R, 2RBI, K
Lo. Lawson: 2-2, R
Bockmon: 1-3

[Bleacher Report @BleacherReport]

Full Kentucky sequence.

Just stadium sound.

Chills ‼️ @MarchMadnessMBB

[KSBar & Grille @KSBarAndGrille]

The celebration of Oweh’s buzzer-beater.

Drew is on the bar.

[NCAA March Madness @MarchMadnessMBB]

NO. WAY. 😱

WE'RE GOING TO OVERTIME!!! #MarchMadness

[Zack Cozart @zack_cozart]

Just saw an Aberg press conference about nerves going into the final round with the lead. He talked about how when he gets nervous everything speeds up, he walks faster, breathes faster, talks faster … so he understands this and makes a conscious effort in these situations to slow everything down… walk slow, breathe slow, talk slow, slow practice swings….. this reminds me when I was in AAA I didn’t make the team to start the year in 2011 when I thought I should have … I had a great spring training so was confident going into the season… I started the year 6/50 with zero power… I was in my own head thinking I just blew my shot at getting to the big leagues … our hitting coordinator Ronnie Ortegon (absolute stud) comes in town and I have a shitty BP and we sit and talk right before the game … he said all I want you to do today is slow everything down to half speed … breathe slow , swing slow on deck …. I shit you not, I go 5 for 5 with 4 doubles and a HR and was hitting over 300 within a few weeks and the rest is history …. There’s a lesson in that 🔥🔥

[Brady Smiley @CoachSmiley29]

Todd Golden is the perfect example of “sports will humble you”

Have to be gracious in victory or defeat will come calling

[Brady Smiley @CoachSmiley29]

Congrats to SKLP on a great season. It’s special accomplishment to be playing on the final day of the season.

[Evan Dennison @EvanDennison1]

FINAL:
Girls KHSAA Clark's Pump-n-Shop Sweet 16 Semifinals

George Rogers Clark 66, Simon Kenton 40

It will be Assumption-GRC for the championship tonight at 7:30. Lady Pioneers historic season ends at 33-3. Today was their first loss to an in-state opponent.

[Brady Smiley @CoachSmiley29]

One year removed from a state run, they don’t even make region...

[Evan Dennison @EvanDennison1]

Conner defeats Cooper, 65-51.

It will be Ryle-Conner in Friday’s boys 33rd District championship.

[Brady Smiley @CoachSmiley29]

“Structure is not cruelty. It is love made visible”

[Dr Danish @operationdanish]

We now have evidence that gentle parenting doesn’t work.

Here’s an uncomfortable truth about parenting no one wants to say out loud:

The data is not kind to gentle parenting.

According to teenagers, strict curfews. strict bedtimes, screen limits, device drop off times, dedicated homework blocks, and sleepover restrictions IMPROVE higher relationship quality.

And yes, parenting difficulty goes up.

Of course it does. Leadership is harder than appeasement.

For the past decade we have been sold a watered down, Instagram friendly version of “gentle parenting�� that often collapses into boundary avoidance, endless negotiation and emotional processing without enforcement. Parents terrified of saying no because they do not want to rupture connection.

But connection without authority is not connection. It is dependency.

When parents impose structure, the relationship improves.

Teenagers report better parent child relationship quality in homes with curfews and rules. Younger kids report better relationships in homes with screen limits and bedtimes. Even device drop off times correlate positively.

Why?

Because structure is not cruelty. Structure is love made visible.

A bedtime says: your brain matters more than your entertainment.

A screen limit says: your dopamine system is not fully developed and I will guard it until it is.

A curfew says: your safety matters more than your social standing.

That is not authoritarianism. That is caring.

Boundaries create friction. Friction creates growth. The parent absorbs the short term discomfort so the child does not pay the long term cost.

Children do not experience well calibrated limits as rejection. They experience them as stability. The human brain craves predictability. Predictability reduces anxiety. Reduced anxiety strengthens attachment.

That is why relationship quality goes up.

Notice something else in the data. The strongest effects are around time structure. Bedtime. Homework. Devices. Outside play. These are environmental constraints. They scaffold executive function.

The winning formula is not tyranny.

It is high warmth plus high structure.

The modern failure mode is high warmth plus low structure. That is just abdication of responsibility wrapped in empathy.

Children need leadership, not negotiation. They need adults who can tolerate their anger. They need boundaries that do not move every time emotions spike. They need someone whose prefrontal cortex is fully myelinated.

The harder path produces the stronger bond.

Because when a child feels that someone is strong enough to hold the line, they relax. And relaxed nervous systems build durable relationships.

[Bleacher Report @BleacherReport]

USA DEFEATS CANADA TO WIN THEIR FIRST MEN'S HOCKEY GOLD MEDAL SINCE 1980 🚨🇺🇸

[Brady Smiley @CoachSmiley29]

@jhyde61 sighting. 👀 Can’t miss that guy!

[Vaughts' Views @vaughtsviews]

Pretty cool that @CoachWillStein apparently hosted over 125 former @UKFootball players tonight from what I was told. @JJarmon99 introduced Stein who spoke about 10 minutes. UK staff worked the room chatting with all the former players. Kudos to @CoachWillStein for taking time to do this.

[Brady Smiley @CoachSmiley29]

I don’t know how you could look your team in the eyes and say “let’s hold the ball for 4 minutes” 🙈

[KSR @KSRonX]

The good stuff.

[Brady Smiley @CoachSmiley29]

The internet needs to see that I was all over this #GoBigBlue

[Simon Kenton Baseball @SKHSbaseball]

With the start of the college baseball season, we want to wish the best of luck on a successful and healthy freshman season to our guys!

Tyler Ruete - @RULakerBaseball
Jag Ruebel - @ICCCBaseball