In an attempt to deflect some of the media criticism surrounding his team's recent slide out of first place in the AL Central, Detroit Tigers manager Brad Ausmus attempted to use a joke to lighten the mood with reporters after the team's third-straight loss to the surging Kansas City Royals.
However, his choice of "joke" (via George Sipple of the Detroit Free Press) wasn't funny at all:
Ausmus was asked how he deals with the losing when he goes home: "I beat my wife." Obviously was joking and he later apologized.
— George Sipple (@GeorgeSipple) June 18, 2014
Ausmus: "I didn't want to make light of battered women. I apologize for that if it offended anyone."
— George Sipple (@GeorgeSipple) June 18, 2014
Perhaps too late on that one, Brad.
