Kennon McArthur

Volleyball Dad & Coach’s Husband - Holistic Health Coach - Athletic Performance - Baseball Guy - Golf Guy

[33s Baseball Club @33sbaseball]

33s Baseball honors one of the great coaches in Alabama travel baseball, Coach “Papa Joe” Joe McArthur. Thank you for always helping young athletes, even your competitors. What an incredible legacy! You will be missed!💜 @ScorpNationSE

Joe McArthur
July 24, 1951-May 25, 2026.

[Adam Williams 🦈 @CoachWilliams]

Wining a state championship was awesome. Celebrating with my high school coach was even cooler. So grateful for Coach V and his influence in my life. I coach baseball because of him. Looking forward to this moment with one of my players in the future.

[Scorpions Southeast @ScorpNationSE]

Thank you to everyone who has reached out about “Coach Joe” McArthur 7/24/51 - 5/25/26

He loved baseball and always enjoyed his time on the field and will forever be missed.
From the McArthur, CABA, and Scorpions families.

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[Kennon McArthur @catchinglessons]

@shegone03 @MLB I K’d 3 times on the road in Auburn NY 1999 - entire stadium got a free meal at Dennys or something like that if I struck out again. That 4th AB was intense lol…grounded out to SS for a standing ovation. Wasn’t so amusing then but it’s funny now. Put the ball in play kids!

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

Gary Sheffield talks about his unique batting stance and approach to hitting.

[Prep Baseball Alabama @PrepBaseballAL]

RHP/SS Cooper Yarbrough (2028) with a quick inning to close out the win for the Huskies.

Higher 3/4 slot, quick arm working aggressively down the mound. Late ride to the fastball, breaking ball featured quality 11/5 shape, late depth. Turned over a few quality changeups. 9/13 pitches for strikes.

FB: 82-84 mph, T85
CB: 73-74 mph
CH: 71-72 mph

#ALHS26

[Paul Chek @PaulChek]

Every single soul carries a piece of the grand puzzle. If you just do what you love to do with the intention of bringing awareness to the things that are most important, the world would change rapidly.

[680 The Fan @680TheFan]

Braves legend Terry Pendleton says the Minnesota Twins had help at the Metrodome during the 1987 and 1991 World Series.

“They had control of the blowers in that place.”

Pendleton says the airflow changed depending on who was hitting and Kirby Puckett’s famous HR had help.

[Brad Sparling @playgolfcollege]

I ran a poll asking what the most important factor in a junior golfer’s development is.

I was shocked that everybody didn’t pick Parenting.

Because after 25 years in competitive golf, having 3 kids of my own play D1 golf, coaching at Duke and Ohio State, and working with hundreds of junior golf families, here’s what I’ve observed, researched and learned:

How you parent is the single biggest factor in your child’s junior golf success.

Almost nobody shows parents how to do this well. I’m on a mission to change that.

So, here are the 10 most important factors in elite golf parenting. From my chapter on Parenting in Becoming Elite:

1.Create a Safe Environment. Your home must be a safe harbor, not a pressure cooker. Your love is unconditional and separate from their golf score. Same affection after an 85 as after a 65. If your mood changes with their scorecard, you are creating a toxic environment that destroys their love for the game. And eventually your relationship.

2.The Car Ride Home. This is where most parents blow it. The car ride home is a sanctuary. A no golf talk zone. Enforce the 48 Hour Rule. Let them decompress, listen to music, stare out the window. The post round autopsy is one of the most damaging things a parent can do.

3.Body Language. Your kids are reading you on every single shot. Every. Single. Shot. A fist pump after a birdie tells them birdies are what matter. Slumped shoulders after a bogey tells them you’re disappointed. Your expression must be the same after a birdie as after a double bogey. Calm, positive, steady. You are the emotional thermostat.

4.Communication. The most important words when they come off the 18th green: I love to watch you play. Not “what did you shoot.” Not “what happened on 12.” After 48 hours, ask open ended questions. How do you feel about your round? What were you most proud of? What do you want to work on? You are a facilitator, not a judge.

5.Creating Ownership. A player led journey is sustainable. A parent led journey leads to burnout. If you are more invested than they are, that is a red flag. Motivation must come from within. Great parents ask questions instead of giving answers. The player who owns their development keeps improving long after the lessons end.

6. Giving them Freedom. Be a lighthouse, not a tugboat. At tournaments, stay at least 50 yards away. Do not walk the fairway with them or stand behind every green. Give them space to breathe and compete. Do not talk to them during the round unless they initiate. They are in their performance bubble. Do not burst it.

7.Allowing Them to Fail. Failure is not the enemy. It is a prerequisite to growth. Your child is more resilient than you think. They can handle failure and disappointment. They need you to believe in them and let them learn, not protect them from every setback. Removing the opportunity to fail is the real enemy.

8.Staying in Your Lane. You are the parent. Not the coach. Not the caddy. Not the swing analyst. These roles do not mix. Constantly offering swing advice creates a toxic triangle of confusion. Hire a professional. Trust them. Stay out of the way. Your job is love and support. Period.

9.Building an Identity Beyond Golf. If your child’s entire sense of self worth is tied to their golf score, you are setting them up for misery. They are a person who plays golf, not the other way around. Encourage other interests. Protect their social life. Let them go to school dances. Family vacations and time with siblings are sacred. A one dimensional identity is one of the three ingredients that causes burnout.

10.Playing the Long Game. This is a 10 year journey, not a 10 tournament sprint. You are not in a race to be the best 12 year old golfer. You are on a patient journey to see how good they can be at 18, at 22, and beyond. Slow down. The car rides, the early morning tee times, the post round ice cream. These are the moments you will remember. Savor them.

[Fryedaddy/Frito @shegone03]

This is what happens when you change the rules for safety!

Apparently he was supposed to step over the safety or green portion of the base and touch the white portion to record the out.

If he had done that wouldn’t he have put himself in position for a collision with the runner who is supposed to touch the green portion?

It’s all so confusing!

#shegone
@notgaetti @BobFile @twuench @billdubs @iamrags @SliderDominate @BLocsports @hittingguru7 @TheRealJHair @DMEASrecruiting @CoachMunoz51

[Jim Koenigsberger @Jimfrombaseball]

"The "Philadelphia Inquirer" found dangerous chemicals in the astroturf of the now-demolished Veterans Stadium.
Six Phillies who played on that turf, Tug McGraw, Darren Daulton, John Vukovich, John Oates, Ken Brett, and David West have died of a rare and aggressive brain cancer. The six players all died in their 40's or 50's, roughly three times the rate of the average adult population.
Even more alarming was their mutual diagnosis of glioblastoma.
The Phillies sold pieces of turf in sealed 4 x 4" bags.
The Inquirer purchased four of those on eBay.
Samples analyzed by two separate labs found 16 types of dangerous chemicals in the turf.
They are referred to as “forever chemicals” because they don’t break down and can last in the human body for years.
The US federal government estimates that 12,000 artificial turf fields containing PFAS or “forever chemicals” exist in USA.
Darren 'Dutch' Daulton.
And still no updates on this story!!!

[nugget chef @jayhaykid]

So the guy Bud Selig hand picked to oversee the investigation into PED usage in baseball that resulted in the famed Mitchell Report, George Mitchell, is all over the Epstein Files in the most disgusting way imaginable?

[HealthRanger @HealthRanger]

Trump just declared, "glyphosate-based herbicides are a cornerstone of this Nation’s agricultural productivity and rural economy." And he's declaring glyphosate weedkiller to be a federally-protected critical resources.

This is insanity. He is now pushing the mass poisoning of American food crops and groceries with cancer-causing deadly weedkiller chemicals that will be sprayed all over the food crops.

Trump just declared chemical warfare on the American people. It's all here in black and white:
https://t.co/eFPZPxa8nD

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

This is Leon Black. He is one of the billionaire pedophiles in the Epstein files.

He owns Lifetouch: The biggest school picture company in America that photographs millions of kids each year.

Your childrens’ photos are being uploaded to a database that’s owned by a pedophile.

[Fryedaddy/Frito @shegone03]

Former @MLB player John Vander Wal nailed it on his @facebook post!
#shegone

The game is in an awful state.

I scouted professionally for two organizations over a ten-year period, and a lot of what we’re seeing today is being misunderstood or flat-out misrepresented.

First, velocity. Pitchers are not throwing significantly harder across the board. The perceived jump in velocity is primarily the result of technology and measurement changes — specifically where the device picks the baseball up out of the hand. As radar and tracking systems moved closer and closer to release, the readings increased. The arm didn’t change — the measurement did.

Now hitting.

We’ve reached a point where “gurus” who never played the game at a high level are applying golf swing principles to baseball, largely because golf embraced analytics to identify the most efficient swing paths. The problem is that a baseball bat is not a golf club.

In golf, you dump the club to get it on plane.
In baseball, you cannot lose the barrel on the back side and still stay on plane consistently.

Yet the tech community began preaching backside barrel dump as the answer. Front offices filled with non-baseball “propeller head” GMs bought into the presentations, and this philosophy was pushed aggressively through the minor leagues. I saw this coming as early as 2014.

The result?
Hitters now dump the barrel in an attempt to get on plane, but they:
• Struggle to stay inside the baseball
• Lose adjustability
• Operate with slower effective bat speed

On the pitching side, it’s no better.

Pitchers are taught max effort on every pitch. Starters rarely exceed 90 pitches or five innings, work almost exclusively to either arm side or glove side, and live in deep counts. Relievers are almost universally max effort, arm-side only.

The consequence is obvious:
• Poor command
• Inconsistent control
• Little ability to sequence or adjust

Despite all the technology, pitching command and overall feel are as bad as I’ve ever seen at the big-league level.

More data didn’t make the game smarter.
It just made it louder — and in many cases, worse.

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[Kennon McArthur @catchinglessons]

@CoachPerk @AROD Good stuff! #professionalhitter
Hands above the ball
Barrel above the hands
Hands inside the ball

[Bryson Morman @BMorman11]

Blessed!!🟢🟡#goblazers #JUCOPRODUCT

[Kennon McArthur @catchinglessons]

@shegone03 @AdvilRelief There’s no comparison. I came through the Vioxx years (was amazing) - turns out very dangerous.

But steroids are in a performance enhancing category of their own. Strength, aggression, recovery, focus, intensity, confidence. I never did them myself but I witnessed it

[Z® @VKs_Host]

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