Torii Hunter is guaranteed to always give his honest opinion on matters. However, on Thursday, following the Chicago White Sox and Detroit Tigers game, Hunter couldn't come up with the proper words to answer the questions reporters asked in relation to an almost on-field brawl involving both benches and bullpens. At the end of the day nothing happened, but Hunter did not want to get into the matter.
"As far as what happened with (Luke) Putkonen getting ejected and Sale coming up and in on Prince (Fielder), what are your thoughts on everything that transpired there?," asked one reporter.
Hunter's responded, "Ehhh?!," as he gave a Chris Bosh-like stare back at the reporter.
"What can you say? What will you say?," the reporter tried to follow up.
More sound effects and stares with eyebrow lifts ensued, "Ehhh?"
He continued avoiding questions and simply closed out the interview by saying, "It's tough. You guys got some tough questions man. You know that's something we try to stay away from and we just play the game."
Whether or not Hunter thought Alexei Ramirez deserved getting a pitch thrown behind his back became irrelevant as Hunter, who is well liked and a 17-year veteran, did his best job not sparking any trouble between the two divisional rivals. Though the White Sox are not competing, the Tigers aren't trying to create bad blood with a divisional rival, they have more things to worry about, like getting into the playoffs.
Here's the video as you can see the entire interview of Hunter avoiding reporters and see for yourself the Bosh-like imitations from the Tigers' right-fielder.
