Re: Enlighten me

"Rod Gramlich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "Paul Little" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > "Barry O'Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > > IMHO, best choice is peeling the centre guard.  Boring perhaps, but
> > > safe.
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> > > Just for the exercise, would anyone's opinion change if the scenario
> > > was the same but red was down by one?
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> > No.
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> THANK YOU !!!!
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> Thank you to all, thus far. My contention (as skip) was to peel the guard.
> My 'boys' requested that I play a tap_back on the yellow in the rings. I
> told them they were dreaming or smoking ... and that any self respecting
> curler would peel the guard (a REAL curler would rip the guard with
> out_turn, make the double on run back, and perhaps even leave the red
> shooter as a corner on top of red in the rings :) None_the_less (maybe I'm
> drinking and /or smoking as well with that wish), the guard has to go.
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> Are there ANY contenders to that theory out there ?? If so, I wanna hear
> your rationale for playing something other than ripping the guard.
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An (not very flattering to me) aside.  We had a similar situation a few
weeks ago in the cashspiel in Medicine Hat, the exception that the rock in
the 4-ft was at the back of the four, and a bit more exposed, about a third.
A pretty easy pick.  I was throwing second, and  the sweepers almost laid
down on the ice when my skip called the tap-back.  We were up by two with
hammer at the time.  We did the things I hate -- talked about it for about
two minutes until I think my skip decided I wasn't going to throw the shot
any other way, so went down and called the rip with peel weight.

I happily went back to the hack and threw the SOB about a foot inside and
ended up picking the shot rock in the 4-ft anyway!

Guess where they put their next one (see your original post!)  Our third
made a great peel to get me/us out of trouble, but it should never have
happened.  We had them held to one point, and had to make a great shot to
prevent  them from tying the game.