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Mitch Albom: Brad Ausmus handles ouster as Tigers' manager with class

Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press

Brad Ausmus got up Saturday and went to work, knowing his job was gone in a few weeks. In this way, he was more like a Detroiter than he’d ever been. How many auto workers have done the same with an imminent plant closing? Or teachers with a school closing?

“I actually told Al I’d like to do it,” Ausmus said via phone early Saturday afternoon. “If he had told me to go away, I would have, but I like to finish what we started.