Yahoo Blogger Buries His Torii Hunter Lede

It’s all fun and games until somebody gets shot.

So reads the fifth paragraph of Big League Stew Yahoo blogger David Brown’s summary report about a scary incident Wednesday involving Los Angeles Angels outfielder Torii Hunter and a pair of OC police officers responding to a tripped burglar alarm. But that sentence really should be the lede; it succinctly and cleverly frames the seriousness of the encounter.

As first reported last night by LA Times writer Lance Pugmire, the nine-time Golden Glove winner was getting ready to watch a movie at his Newport Beach home after a morning workout at Dodger Stadium when he heard noises at the front door:

“I grabbed a knife and was about to start Bruce Lee-ing on whoever was there,” Hunter said.

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