Quick! Snatch Up Your Ping Eye 2s on eBay! Lots Available!
by Ryan Ballengee on Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM EST
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PrintA Waggle Room reader sent me a very astute question this morning when asking me how hard it would be to come by Ping Eye 2 wedges that fit through the loophole. I had no idea, but I figured the best place to look for them would be eBay. So, that's what I did.
Doing a very basic eBay search for "Ping Eye 2 wedges," I got 200 results from eBay. The prices ranged wildly from $5.95 to someone asking almost $500 for a PE2 beryllium lob wedge.
Thank goodness, no one has bid on it.
A good chunk of the listings have the date of manufacturing and promote that they have square grooves, and are approved for play by professionals. Some carry wrong information in them, too. And, of course since it's eBay, caveat emptor to any pro that looks to use these in play. Check with Ping using the serial number!
I would guess that a lot of these guys were watching at the start of the season, heard about the loophole, went to their garage to see if they had a club, and then posted it on eBay within the hour.
Ping Eye 2s could be like the new baseball cards. Hopefully you didn't abuse them like you did that Mickey Mantle rookie card that you attached to the spokes of your bike with a clothespin to make an engine sound.
You feel real stupid about doing that now, huh?
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I think it was our own progolf who posted yesterday that there were 91 Ping Eye 2’s available either on Ebay or Craigslist yesterday….now up to 200 on Ebay. Good ole American capitalism at work!
Was not I !!!
I’ve got a warehouse full of clubs and don’t need to troll e bay for any more. Anyone wanna buy a brand new sleeve of wound, Club Specials from the early 70’s ?
"pain is only weakness leaving the body"
progolf/jumpn,
I knew you posted something about this…
“9 other guys are also this week “pain is only weakness leaving the body”
by progolf on Jan 30, 2010 5:55 PM PST"
….but I either have a vivid imagination or I’m losing my mind(or both). I could swear someone posted something yesterday about 91 Ping Eye 2’s available either at Ebay or Craigslist(maybe it was at TGC?)
NIBLIC
There ya go, I did post that 9 other guys were using that club on Sat, but nothing about e bay. Sorry dude !! You probably read that on TGC
"pain is only weakness leaving the body"
Nope…couldn’t find anything about 91 Ping Eye 2’s at TGC either…it’s official, I’ve lost my mind. That’s Ok, small loss
Okay, niblic, who are you
and what have you done with the real niblic?
by TXQ on Feb 1, 2010 3:49 PM EST up reply actions
still waiting for you to show a link where double negative is defined as….
“states simply that a double negative must convey the opposite of what the writer meant to say.”
…is that better?
No, it's a relapse, but
here’s a good example:
“Don’t use no double negatives.”
The writer (not me) is actually advising to use double negatives, but he didn’t mean to say that, thus it’s a true double neg.
That’s what the Catholic school sisters taught me, though I called one of the slower ones Nun Sequitur.
by TXQ on Feb 1, 2010 4:37 PM EST up reply actions
I can agree with that…it is a double negative. But so is ping’s example…“I don’t dislike JD”. What is still in dispute is where you came to the conclusion that ALL double negatives must convey the opposite meaning that the writer intended. Remember, we learned yesterday that in Shakespeare’s day, it was common to use a double negative to emphasize the meaning. I seriously doubt if Shakespeare conveyed a meaning that he did not intend to convey.
So once again, I’ll ask you as civilly as I possibly can, to just kindly show where you came to the conclusion…"states simply that a double negative must convey the opposite of what the writer meant to say."
As a rule of thumb, whenever you use terms such as “must” and “all” and “never” in describing the English language, you are just setting yourself up to be wrong, and indeed wrong you are!
I appreciate the civility. Don't want you to
herniate yourself (J/K), but that’s why I said “true” double neg. Those are the one that need correcting.
by TXQ on Feb 1, 2010 5:20 PM EST up reply actions
I never asked for nor stated that any correction was necessary. I simply identified a double negative on ping’s part, and you took it upon yourself to enter the fray and say that it was NOT a double negative. Now that we have agreed that you were wrong, we can move on.
There are various types of double negs.
I brought to light the important one.
And i’d never want any words of yours even near my mouth. But congrats on not cursing. Major accomplishment.
Maturity’s now just a few miles away.
by TXQ on Feb 1, 2010 5:33 PM EST up reply actions
O really? I’d be very interested in learning about those various types…strange that you can’t direct me to your source for that arcane knowledge?
Even stranger that your avocation
is alienating yourself on a daily basis. You’re about as popular as diphtheria.
by TXQ on Feb 1, 2010 6:06 PM EST up reply actions
So now it’s there are various types of double negatives, whereas yesterday you said, and I quote…“Certainly don’t wanna enter this fray, but "don’t dislike" is not a double negative”
You can squirm all you like but I’ve caught you in a mistake….you might as well learn from Tiger and admit it.
Yikes. How fast was the train going
when it hit you in the head?
No doubt you think you’re impressing people when you post your daily venom. Double yikes.
I’m done with you. Find your next host.
by TXQ on Feb 1, 2010 6:13 PM EST up reply actions
how about this from the Uncyclopedia?
“Other kinds of double negative:
Sometimes, sentences such as “it doesn’t not work”, “I don’t disagree” or “Mr. Jones was not incompetent” are said to contain double negatives (since the “not” and the “dis/un” cancel each other out). However, such sentences are quite distinct from the “I don’t have no apples” kind of double negative. The former kind merely involve two negatives canceling each other out, and are found both in dialects which have the “no apples” kind of double negative and in dialects which don’t. Indeed, there are no dialects in which “I don’t disagree” means the same as “I disagree”. In contrast, the latter kind involve quantificational phrases such as “no apples” showing negative agreement because they are within the scope of a negative operator such as “not” — a distinct grammatical phenomenon, found in many other languages and nonstandard English dialects, but not in standard English."
"this ball will fit in that fairway"
Thanks court…I can agree with “types” or “kinds” of double negatives. TXQ has introduced “types” of double negatives himself….
“There are various types of double negs. I brought to light the important one.”
…the fact still remains, and I have posted it here in black and white, that TXQ said…"but “don’t dislike” is not a double negative". Now TXQ could make a case that his quote was not one type of double negative or another, but the sheer fact that “don’t dislike” contains 2 negatives makes it a “double negative”. DUH
Suggesting it was not a double neg
as most people know them, the kind that doesn’t make sense.
Please give it a rest. Find a new challenge for that mind of yours.
by TXQ on Feb 1, 2010 8:38 PM EST up reply actions
Winter....
brings out the worst in golfers.
"The game is swell when it's played well."
by Fairways and Grins on Feb 1, 2010 8:40 PM EST up reply actions
No thanks….I enjoy this. And your sentence….“Suggesting it was not a double neg as most people know them, the kind that doesn’t make sense.”…doesn’t make sense either. But even while lacking sense, it does prove that you were wrong when you said…
"Certainly don’t wanna enter this fray, but “don’t dislike” is not a double negative"
Like I said about 20 posts ago, as soon as you admit you were wrong, we can move on. Everyone else already knows it, I just like to see how long you’ll go stubbornly refusing to admit you’re wrong.
eBay windows
of opportunity.
They’ll could sell fast, get banned, then be resold on on eBay.
Fortunately...
I still have my valuable baseball cards. I just wish I hadn’t put my Ping Eye2 wedges in the spokes of my bike.
That's okay, DE. Ping's popularity
goes in cycles.
by TXQ on Feb 1, 2010 4:53 PM EST up reply actions
Hey, does
anyone think that all the old Ping sponsored players will bust out the old wands and do battle?…Hell, If I was in there position, I sure would…might get up to around , heck maybe to about…or so guys that have the old Pings and will put them in the bags…STUB
This "Aint" Golf
this is all so ridiculous……….first the Tiger debacle, now Pings from the past. Ben Hogan just flipped in his grave……..What the Hell………John Daly………Bobby Jones just started Bulldozing Augusta National. Woe to the game………..Woe.
"The game is swell when it's played well."
by Fairways and Grins on Feb 1, 2010 7:57 PM EST up reply actions
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