Bobb-O: I have realized I have not been posting my own stories on here lately and was trying to figure out what to post about. I thought John Daly and Phil Mickelson have returned to the PGA tour why not do that….. Then something fell into my lap. Before i begin this I would like to say I have met Jimmy Reviele, and thought he was a very nice guy and I appreciate him going out and representing me and my university. Jimmys father Vinny on the other hand is completly out of line and I wish him good riddance. When you make a website that bashes a team and a coach you sir is what is known as a douche. I will now go through and dispute major claims the douche put forth and try to set it straight. This is a 16000+ word document and may miss a few points but I have a feeling my co-bloggers will back me up.
1.) “Of course anyone who reads this is first going to think I am some disgruntled parent upset with his sons lack of playing time at U of H. Not true. Actually Mr. Douche this is true you are worse than a Little League mom who bitches her son isn’t getting playing time. Sometimes you must admit what you are and you sir are a pissed off parent. I get it you wanted to see your son play more that’s fine, We ALL get it.
2.) “My Son..did not want me to write or post this letter.” Then why Vinny did you embarrass your son in this way. Jimmy would have been another player who has come on gone but now because of your stupid move he is infamous.
3.) “A 27-31 record speak for its self ” I see your point but so does a CUSA tournament championship and many other regional appearences. A top 5 draft pick (Brad Lincoln), a guy who plays for the Houston Astros (Michael Bourn) and two guys who this year were drafted in the top 10 rounds……
4.) ” Noble would move them back a day in the rotation if they still struggled he would move them back another day to sunday and if they continued to have more bad appearences they would be moved to the weekday starter” I think he is speaking about Wes Musick who was just drafted in the 9th round……. Yeah he needed to be benched.
5.) “Noble would use any pitcher he could find no matter how badly they did in their last outing before he would use Jimmy” Thats because Jimmy had the 2nd Highest ERA on the team… Just sayin’
6.) ” whenever Jimmy did come in, it was usually when there were no outs and the bases were loaded.” Except for game one of the 2009 season in which he gave up 6 earned runs in one inning……
7.) The section of Jimmy as an all star in Little League is garbage. Hell I was an all star in little league and hit a homer. My best friend had the city of Arlington Little League record for home runs. It doesn’t mean him or I are D-1 baseball players. Little league doesn’t mean a damn thing so……. NEXT!!!!!!!
Besides baseball, Bobb-o excelled at painting (as seen here)
8.) Vinny Rav… politics does play a part in High School baseball. When I moved to Waco from Arlington, the coach actually said “see if politics helps in my decision ever again.” I’m sorry but politics isn’t the reason your son was on JV, the problem was there were older better more mature players who had seen High School pitching.
9.) He mentions player Jimmy faced and beat and how great they are. Excuse me douche but maybe those kids were good in High School but maybe the development was helped by the schools they went to
10.) “Noble said jimmy could have it ( Number 8 ) If he paid Noble $100.” Okay Vinny Rav… We all believe you.
11.) “Sadly once again, Jimmy only had a total of 19 appearances and 24 innings” Also he had a 6.38 ERA. Appearances are hard to come by when that happens. Batters hit a staggering .377 off of him.
12.) Ya Jimmy had a great strikeout to batters faced ratio, but again I will bring up opponents batted .313 off of him.
13.) Mr Douche also refers to Noble’s favorites and those favorites are starters when you need to pitch around trouble. If a starter gives up 3 runs not bad… if a reliever gives up three, that’s bad.
14.) He accuses Noble of having a foul mouth including this wonderful piece of motivation. You only have two pitches- a ball and right down the dick……… come on noone got a chuckle outta this? I sure as hell did. Honestly every coach says things like that, get over it Mr. Douche
15.) The Vinster brings up a player (Randal Girchuk) just recently drafted to the pros in the 1st round. he also says the kid signed with Arizona and it is all Noble’s fault. Maybe Rayner didn’t want to pursue the kid cause he knew he was going pro.
SarCoog: All I have to say is that Vinny Raviele’s rant didn’t just make my week… it made my year. Don’t think for a second that I agree with anything he’s said and I’ve seen strong evidence that major parts of this rant are false.
It’s even funnier if you know than VR is one of those guys whose fashion sense died in the early 1980’s and isn’t afraid to wear a polo shirt, short shorts and aviator sunglasses. He truly has a fashion sense that I myself could never understand or hope to understand.
Also, thanks to the Rice message board (the Parliament) I found out that the word “Jimmy” was used 513 times in the entire diatribe.
Ted Kaczynski and his Industrial Society and It’s Future manifesto think you’re doing a greeeeattt job Vinny… keep it up!
Bobb-o was so cute!
Love it. I can’t get enough of this.
On #11…19 appearances is quite a bit in college baseball. There are only 56 games on the schedule. He pitched on about 1/3 of them. That’s a lot more than I would expect from a guy with an ERA over 6.
I also liked the part where he says that he was kept from being recruited by A&M, among others because his high school coach said he had already committed to UH in order to keep coaches away from recruiting Jimmy. Well, according to his bio on uhcougars.com, he was also recruited by Houston Baptist and Northwoods University. One of those teams was a historically bad DI team this past year and the other isn’t DI at all. But I can see how you would get them confused with A&M.
I liked how Vinny said he didn’t want to hurt any current players or anything, but he puts up this act of standing up for Chris Wright and Carlos Reyes in the rant, saying they were also victimized by Noble. I’m pretty sure, Vinny, that those two would have rather you left them alone.
And how could we not mention that ridiculous paragraph about how nobody gave him and his product a chance and a decade down the road he had the opportunity to rub his wealth in the face of a man who turned his product down. That was certainly right on topic with his rant about his son’s baseball career.
While I’m here, who was this rant directed at? First he addresses it to the president of the university as if she cares and has the time to read the entire thing. Then, he goes on to say that he wrote it to warn any future recruits and parents of recruits about the coaching antics of Noble. Which one is it, Vinny?
Vinny makes no bones about the fact that he is a wealthy man and I sure hope that’s true because he may be needing a good lawyer if he plans on fighting the cease and desist order the U will be sending him in the near future. The way I see it, this is slander. He says in the rant that it’s not slander if it’s true, but none of his complaints about Coach Noble are backed up by any real proof or quotes from other individuals. For that matter, personal attacks are slander no matter what and he does plenty of that.
Yes Mom-O I was cute…… We here at Scott and Holman appreciate your feed back.
OK, Scott & Holman. Now you’ve had your rant too. The bottom line is the father admitted his son wanted no part of this, but now the son has to deal with the humiliation you guys (and some other blogs) are heaping on. In my book you’re no better than the dad because all you’re really doing is hurting this kid who wanted no part of it. You can say your comments are directed at the dad, but there is little doubt who’s really going to be hurt the worst by this.
“you’re no better than the dad”
Thanks whorn.
I didn’t realize a brief blog post was the same thing as a 16,000+ word, virulent diatribe. I guess Rayner Noble and his family aren’t humiliated at all by all this attention that Vinny forced on them either right?
-SarCoog
LonghornOwl – I have doubt…are you talking about the dad? He seems to have made a total embarassment of himself, and Bobb-O made sure that his analysis thereof was so focused. You can talk about the court of public opinion all you want, but anyone who uses this rant or any response to it specifically in order (or as an excuse) to injure Jimmy’s reputation or career is just as guilty as his father is for writing it.
If you can’t keep straight that Jimmy is an honorable person who maybe is not as talented as advertised, or at least followed poor advice from several sources, you’ve got plenty of problems, and should sit in judgment of yourself before Jimmy or even his father, let alone a grounded commenter (with actual personal investment in the team and school) who was able to use fact and a fair opinion of all parties’ motives and actions to provide a more realistic story.
Come after Vinny. He’s a man. He’s over 40. You don’t go after a kid, who does the right things.
Throughout the entire rant Vinny Constantly says ‘Check the stats”. I did check the stats and came up with these conclusions. As I said I have met Jimmy and he is a very nice guy. I know if my father put up a 16000 word rant that said check the stats, when people did “check the stats” I could’nt be ashamed of everything they found. Vinny brought this on not us.
Bobb-O
Maybe Jimmy should have went to one of the other two schools that recruited him…Houston Baptist and Northwoods University. Why on earth this kid thought he would play as much as he thought is beyond me. He should be happy with the career he had.
There are guys drafted out of high school that never amount to crap. Jimmy did pretty decent depending on how you look at it. He wasn’t drafted or highly recruited. Baseball is one of those sports that if you are good enough the majors will find you. Their draft alone is so long it is borderline ridiculous. Two cricket players from India were signed last year. Noble may be crazy. This parent Vinny is delusional. He spits out the most absurd stats and excuses as to why his son failed.
The story he tells about his plane is an epic display of douche.
wow you guys actually read the whole thing??? i posted on coogfan.com that i got to paragraph 2 before my eyes hurt… and said the best thing that would come out of it is the U of H purchasing the domain name off the father…..
First!!!10101011010 (unless you posted before 9 am on the 12th).