I get it. Your team is in a serious funk and reporters are asking you why you’re not all upset about it. You want to make an over-the-top joke that demonstrates how you’re not overreacting, so you go with the sarcastic overreaction thing.
But really, Brad Ausmus, some thing you just don’t joke about:
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
Glad to see he immediately apologized. Would be even more glad if this turned into a nice moment in which Ausmus and/or the Tigers did something to help a domestic violence charity or something.