Emil Brown Will Bust a Pellet in You, Son

When you're the Kansas City Royals, you do everything you can to try to have fun at the ballpark ... because if winning is fun for you, that solution's not really in the picture very often.

What does Emil Brown do? He shoots a pellet gun around the locker room, or at least he did until he hit a local TV reporter in the face with a pellet and felt awful:

A team spokesman said Brown didn't mean to shoot KMBC sports reporter Karen Kornacki with the plastic pellet gun. Brown started in left field Friday night against the Texas Rangers.

"It was certainly an accident," Royals spokesman David Holtzman said. "He wasn't shooting at anybody."

Kornacki was interviewing shortstop Tony Pena Jr. before the game when she felt the pellet hit near her left eye, said Gary Roberts, KMBC's assistant news director. Kornacki ended the interview and left the locker room immediately.

"I was just messing around in here," Brown said. "I feel terrible about it. Karen is one of the nicest persons that I've met, especially as far as the media is concerned. This happening to her, I feel absolutely awful about it."

Oh, Emil; try to keep the pellet gun in the locker while the reporters are there, huh? I know it's hard to keep ish from poppin' off when you're in the Crown City (what what what!) ... but give it a shot for us. Not literally.

(HT: BBTF)