mets continue being dumb, all is right with the world
4.05.2005
Willie needs Mo, instead gets woe
Reds' Joe Randa (l.) comes home to wild reception as his ninth-inning home run follows Adam Dunn's two-run shot and makes losers of Mets.
CINCINNATI - Sandman! Cue Sandman!
Sorry, no Sandman. Very clearly, this was no longer the rally-proof Bronx, the triple-pad-locked, barb-wired playground of a certain one-pitch reliever.
"I'm not on the Yankees anymore," Willie Randolph said yesterday, after Braden Looper turned the manager's lilting debut with the Mets into some kind of Wes Craven vision, a 7-6 come-from-ahead defeat. "There are not many Mariano Riveras around."
Randolph spoke of this not so much as a revelation, but as a long-accepted truth. His address was different now, and so was the karma. Still, it seemed particularly cruel and inopportune that Randolph's first reality check arrived in the ninth inning at Great American Ballpark, with a two-run lead and his closer on the mound.
Welcome to the uniform.
