I miss Jaybate, I miss last year.
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Since we are bringing up missing posters, where are you fellas at??
Hope you both are doing okay.
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When I didn’t understand or want to continue fighting a topic with him I just let it go. I miss his novels though and the outside the box stuff. I felt like you just had to take what he said with a grain of salt and leave personal feelings out of it. I found it easier to enjoy what he brought to this site that way. Definitely is missed…
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Kcmatt7 said:
Since we are bringing up missing posters, where are you fellas at??
Hope you both are doing okay.
Approx mentioned FanToo was alright, just busy iirc.
Rooster was going through some very hard times with his wife. I hope he is okay.
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BShark said:
Kcmatt7 said:
Since we are bringing up missing posters, where are you fellas at??
Hope you both are doing okay.
Approx mentioned FanToo was alright, just busy iirc.
Rooster was going through some very hard times with his wife. I hope he is okay.
Yep
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Rooster was having memory problems, so very sad! Would loved to have met the very kind man! What a lovely man to care for his wife like he did! I hope he’s being cared for too!
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@Red_Rooster was great, anyone heard from @RockChalkinTexas recently?
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Crimsonorblue22 said:
Rooster was having memory problems, so very sad! Would loved to have met the very kind man! What a lovely man to care for his wife like he did! I hope he’s being cared for too!
Amen, Sister!
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kjayhawks said:
@Red_Rooster was great, anyone heard from @RockChalkinTexas recently?
Was online a few days ago according to her profile.
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Crimsonorblue22 said:
Rooster was having memory problems, so very sad! Would loved to have met the very kind man! What a lovely man to care for his wife like he did! I hope he’s being cared for too!
Amen.
Memory problems suck. My friend’s dad was just diagnosed with Parkinson’s last week.
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@kjayhawks She posted a pic from the UT game, IIRC, a couple of weeks ago after being AWOL all season, I believe. I don’t know of anything since, unless she was in on a game thread.
I had no use for Jabate’s tendency to make claims he refused to support or even discuss. He and JHFToo used to fight over who had to look up evidence about JB’s theories (that he denied were theories).
I also had no use for JB’s willingness to entertain every crackpot theory out there, from fake moon landing to 9/11 as a false flag attack. Then he would deny it, then he would attack and constantly berate anyone calling him out.
He did have a wonderfully creative skill in wordsmithing. And a compendium of knowledge across a broad spectrum, especially his memories of 50’s and 60’s KU and KC. Like many creatively brilliant minds, though, he often refused to accept a worldview contrary to his own and reacted like an angry child, twisting words and resorting to sarcasm and retreating from conversations he could not control. This was really getting worse in his last posts, sadly, which made me wonder how long any of us have.
Interesting to have met him, exhausting to attempt to interact with him.
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Anyone ever seen Jaybate and Gassnola in the same room together?
In all seriousness, I’m not the most frequent or most prosaic (or poetic) or even the most knowledgeable poster on this board by a long shot, but I did send JB a direct message back in November once the season had begun but his commentary had not. I thought I’d check in to make sure he was okay. I never did get a response. I suppose he’d have no reason to reply to me necessarily, but like some others, I always appreciated his takes whether the were prescient (as in the case of the growing shoe scandal) or slightly wide of the mark. I hope he is doing okay wherever he may be.
Same too for @Red_Rooster.
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@mayjay I’m going to call a flagrant 1 on that one. Unnecessary roughness.
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Count me with those that appreciated @jaybate-1-0.
Especially on those long lonely late nights when I just needed something of substance to read. Of course he wasn’t for everyone. Nobody on Earth is for everyone. I’ll even admit at times for me he was longwinded and probably speaking on a level above my ability to process. But I prefer to be challenged overall. @jaybate-1-0 and @HighEliteMajor have both been enjoyable to me in that regard. Stepping out of the box, building a whole new box, and then destroying that box and starting another one. Making you think in new ways. Asking the hard questions. I enjoy it. The absolute beratement and disrespect from some here towards the guys that travel in those unknown and for some here apparently too dark of places are as big a reason I keep coming back as anything.
We could all just constantly Yee haw and yippee… Oh my gosh we’re phenomenal, everything about the program is majestic…blah, blah, blah. And we would of course have plenty of grounds to do so. Personally, I like to think a lil harder than that.
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@KUSTEVE (Raises his hand to acknowledge the foul call like college players used to have to do.) How anybody feels about JB might depend largely on whether that person was ever one of his targets.
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@mayjay I was a Target on more than one occasion.
What about Globaljaybird? What’s the story here? He was one that used to call out my realism as negativity… But we meandered thru it on the side in pm’s
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I was always astounded that @jaybate-1-0 articles were so much better and entertaining than any of the fodder kusports.com was putting out. He was a renaissance man journalist with greater intellect and writing skill than all the supposed journalists combined (thank the LORD keegan left!). Very often people don’t like the smartest guy in the room because they are often quirky and eccentric and well…a lot smarter than less secure people can handle.
I very much miss the deeper dive and thematic genius of his entertaining and wonderfully verbose masterpieces (and the occasional duds as well). As you may recall, he was alluding to his own health issues, so i find it a bit shameful to see some piling on now that no lengthy rebuttal will be forthcoming. We are Jayhawks, we should be better than that. I got the impression he may have been fighting serious issues as well.
If he unfortunately shed the motal coil, then I hope he is with James and Phog having some humdinger debates on the finer points of what he used to repeatedly call…the greatest game ever invented.
Go Jaybate go! You are missed.
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@Fightsongwriter
I hope our fears are greatly exaggerated.
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Anyone try that email?
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Crimsonorblue22 said:
Anyone try that email?
I’ve tried to email him numerous times.
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Interesting, I never really found him combative. Was it just recently? He always struck me as a bright guy with a few crazy ideas. I never recall him being combative, more just playful.
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Actually I think I may have discovered where he went…
a guy who writes just like him, apparently called BDevilbate, is on a Duke site writing voluminously long and zen-like meandering but crazy-brilliant posts… lovingly extolling the genius of krzyzewski and the glowing magnificent heritage of Duke basketball… and how he catfished us here for years simply to amuse himself.
It appears his “love” of KU was just nothing but a put-on… an abject sham. Hideous.
(Ok…Trying to piss him off enough to resurface just to rip me a new one in say 7 alliterative paragraphs…
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@Fightsongwriter I don’t really think anyone is crossing any lines. Even those of us that weren’t big fans of his are wishing him well. I didn’t find most of his stuff useful and dont think he had much knowledge of the game itself. But it dont mean I wish him harm or have any ill will towards him. God speed to him if he has scumed to illness but I’m not changing my opinion on him because of it. I’ve never understood that, like when Michael Jackson died and people forgot about the pedophilia he was involved in. How many families did he settle outta court with? And the evidence that he wrote multiple others checks regularly to keep them from talking. I’m not changing my opinion on people when they are gone.
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And another point… it feels to me like some here may take themselves a bit too seriously. Mr J -bate brought fun to this place more than anything else for me. He was decidedly original in many ways. Which is why I never understood why certain people felt the need to pick apart some of his more elaborate and inventive theorizations. Did it really matter if some of his Jenga- like thought streams may not completely hold up to logical scrutiny? Better to just enjoy, and at his best, he made you see things in a new light… even if the light was refracted.
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@wrwlumpy PHOF!!
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Bosthawk said:
Actually I think I may have discovered where he went…
a guy who writes just like him, apparently called BDevilbate, is on a Duke site writing voluminously long and zen-like meandering but crazy-brilliant posts… lovingly extolling the genius of krzyzewski and the glowing magnificent heritage of Duke basketball… and how he catfished us here for years simply to amuse himself.
It appears his “love” of KU was just nothing but a put-on… an abject sham. Hideous.
(Ok…Trying to piss him off enough to resurface just to rip me a new one in say 7 alliterative paragraphs…
GOLD!
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No offense to anyone here but this board has lost much of my interest this year. Missing jaybate is a major reason why. I still check back out of habit, and appreciate some of the banter, but it’s lost its color. I’ve been home all day for Presidents Day and this is the first time I’ve looked at it. I remember a couple of years back that @brooksmd left too along with globaljaybird. Some I know keep in touch.
I didn’t read everything Jaybate wrote, some of it was outlandish, but goodness, it was entertaining and educational! He was a tireless cheerleader for the Jayhawks, seeing the slightest of silverlining in the darkest cloud.
I guess this is part of the mysterious nature of an online community. We’re all anonymous. And when someone goes we’re all scratching our heads. Some of you have been part of my life for over a decade! Some of us go back to the KUSports days. Some names are brand new like this week. Life goes on. Hopefully we can keep this thing going. Thanks to @approxinfinity our MVP Techie for everything.
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I’m a transferee from LJW days and was known to occasionally post on KUBuckets until the NCAA ruined March Madness for me. I’ve never stopped reading KUBuckets. And I loved Jaybate and his long winded monologues. In July 2017 I was in a head on collision (police report captured my screaming he was on my side of the road) and was more or less out of commission for 15 months. Last fall when I could enjoy KUBuckets again I missed Jaybate. And thought he must have died. Especially when approxfinity referenced jb would have liked someone’s comment.
I was feeling very melancholy about missing JB and this thread popped up giving me hope that he is not dead. Nearly dying 3x has heavily influenced how I feel about all of you posters and I’ve become a different Fan. Sports bring people together–online and in person. None of you are known to me but you and your sometimes crazy comments are part of my aging life. Your diverse thinking and humor have made KU basketball an incredibly enjoyable part of my life. If someone hears from Jaybate please let me know he’s still officially kicking. Thank you.
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@Paris gosh, glad you are doing ok. Scary thing to go thru!
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@Paris God protected you that day and we’re thankful for that!
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Bosthawk said:
And another point… it feels to me like some here may take themselves a bit too seriously. Mr J -bate brought fun to this place more than anything else for me. He was decidedly original in many ways. Which is why I never understood why certain people felt the need to pick apart some of his more elaborate and inventive theorizations. Did it really matter if some of his Jenga- like thought streams may not completely hold up to logical scrutiny? Better to just enjoy, and at his best, he made you see things in a new light… even if the light was refracted.
I tried to post similar thoughts last night but was not as articulate as you —- so I didn’t post it. I kept ending with, “boy, some of you sound like babies.” While that’s how it sounded to me, I think your post better captures my feelings.
I truly think some here went looking for a fight with him and that their intentions there were quite negative.
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@Bosthawk Good one! You had me going!
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@kjayhawks I’m just saying let’s keep it classy. Some of the posts struck me as mean spirited and piling on. Not naming names.
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@Bosthawk Exactly!
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@approxinfinity Just like they say with great NFL QBs, it’s hard to replace a legend.
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@HighEliteMajor Hear! Hear! The board lacks depth since he’s een gone though I could find some of his stuff obnoxious or eventually boring.
Agree though - he had a depth of knowledge and understanding most don’t come close to nor even strive to gain - and the way he could pull tangentially connected thoughts together was the stuff of brilliance.
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@cragarhawk double thumbs up
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I don’t post often but thought I could respond on this one.
Jaybate is my friend"s Uncle. My friend informed me very simply that Jaybate decided to take a break from basketball this season because of his disappointment in KU’s involvement that specifically came out in the FBI trial.
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Bosthawk said:
Did it really matter if some of his Jenga- like thought streams may not completely hold up to logical scrutiny? Better to just enjoy, and at his best, he made you see things in a new light… even if the light was refracted.
Yes it does matter, to an extent. People shouldn’t be able to blatantly lie and make things up and get a free pass on passing them off as facts. Echo chambers are dangerous.
Now, of course it’s not as serious as what goes on in politics and the media in this regard but I don’t think anyone here deserves a free pass, myself included.
I don’t intend for this to be piling on but we are having a discussion about him. Also, I think I may have missed JB’s better years. I’m still relatively new here, after all. I went back and read some of his older posts and there is a bit of a change. In any case I will drop it now, I just saw a lot more replies and felt like I needed to elaborate.
@Paris Wow, three times. Just one time was pretty terrifying for me. RC.
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dtdjayhawk said:
I don’t post often but thought I could respond on this one.
Jaybate is my friend"s Uncle. My friend informed me very simply that Jaybate decided to take a break from basketball this season because of his disappointment in KU’s involvement that specifically came out in the FBI trial.
Thank you for sharing.
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@dtdjayhawk thank you! Very glad to hear that his absence isn’t health related.
If he’s avidly writing about any other topics elsewhere, I’d enjoy a dose of whatever he’s pontificating on. Not married to this board to get my @jaybate-1-0 fix.
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Bosthawk said:
Actually I think I may have discovered where he went…
a guy who writes just like him, apparently called BDevilbate, is on a Duke site writing voluminously long and zen-like meandering but crazy-brilliant posts… lovingly extolling the genius of krzyzewski and the glowing magnificent heritage of Duke basketball… and how he catfished us here for years simply to amuse himself.
It appears his “love” of KU was just nothing but a put-on… an abject sham. Hideous.
(Ok…Trying to piss him off enough to resurface just to rip me a new one in say 7 alliterative paragraphs…
Lol hilarious!
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@Paris thanks for your heartfelt post. Big love back at you!
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@BShark “Also, I think I may have missed JB’s better years. I’m still relatively new here, after all.”
Ditto.
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@Bosthawk That doesn’t mean he was "catfishing"us . He has knowledge of our program that predates most of us, so I wouldn’t believe it was somehow an elaborate act that went on for 15+ years. He needs an outlet, and we told him to shut up, so there you go.
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@KUSTEVE You realize that post was in jest, don’t you? The parenthetical explains he was trying to draw JB out from hiding with an outlandish explanation!
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@mayjay No I didn’t realize that. Nevermind.
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@dtdjayhawk Thanks for sharing. It’s too bad really because Jaybate is going to miss the first team to win a national championship that then gets their title stripped from them!
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wissox said:
@dtdjayhawk Thanks for sharing. It’s too bad really because Jaybate is going to miss the first team to win a national championship that then gets their title stripped from them!
Would take!
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wissox said:
@dtdjayhawk Thanks for sharing. It’s too bad really because Jaybate is going to miss the first team to win a national championship that then gets their title stripped from them!
So KU is going to vacate their 2008 title for this?
Louisville already vacated their 2013 title from NCAA sanctions.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 No dook will be vacating the title they win this april lol
