DETROIT, MI - MAY 25: Detroit Tigers manager Brad Ausmus #7 walks back to the dugout after making a pitching change during the seventh inning of the game against the Texas Rangers at Comerica Park on May 25, 2014 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Leon Halip/Getty Images) DETROIT, MI - MAY 25: Detroit Tigers manager Brad Ausmus #7 walks back to the dugout after making a pitching change during the seventh inning of the game against the Texas Rangers at Comerica Park on May 25, 2014 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Leon Halip/Getty Images)

By Ashley Dunkak

@AshleyDunkak

CBS DETROIT – The fallout continued Thursday from a sarcastic comment Detroit Tigers manager Brad Ausmus made in his postgame press conference the day before. Asked how he is at home with all the losing the Tigers have endured recently, Ausmus joked, “I beat my wife.”

Ausmus quickly clarified he was kidding and apologized mere minutes later. He apologized again Thursday morning and talked about the aftermath of the comment in his own life – finding it hard to sleep, having to address the comment with his wife and two daughters.

ESPN’s Keith Law was not moved by the apologies of Ausmus. Law, whose words have a considerable audience given his 400,000-plus Twitter followers, has repeatedly and thoroughly condemned the manager.

Among other statements, Law tweeted that Ausmus’ comment was “nauseating,” saying he does not know how the idea to joke about domestic abuse even occurs to a rational person. He wrote that Ausmus’ remark showed a lack of empathy and that he does not know “what kind of psychopath you have to be to even think about joking about beating your wife.”

Law also agreed that the Tigers or Major League Baseball should punish Ausmus.

Yes. RT @LitiGator78: What's your take on Ausmus' wife beating comment? Tigers or MLB have to punish him despite quick unprompted apology? — keithlaw (@keithlaw) June 19, 2014

Yep. RT @mrbusche: @Andy0wens try making this joke at your workplace and see how many people think it's just words. Report back. — keithlaw (@keithlaw) June 19, 2014

Then they're sick. RT @jft87: You make no differentiation for the context of what he said? People laughed at his joke! — keithlaw (@keithlaw) June 19, 2014

I can't imagine what kind of psychopath you have to be to even *think* about joking about beating your wife. — keithlaw (@keithlaw) June 19, 2014

Apology doesn't unsay or unthink it. MT @Jimmy10Campbell: and apologized right away without being prompted to or anything. — keithlaw (@keithlaw) June 19, 2014

@workingman32 People do slip. But I don't think this is an ordinary "slip." It's a horrendous subject for humor. — keithlaw (@keithlaw) June 19, 2014

@Half0at His statement showed a lack of empathy. — keithlaw (@keithlaw) June 19, 2014

@velvetsky1983 I just don't see how that thought even occurs to a rational person. It's nauseating. — keithlaw (@keithlaw) June 19, 2014

Ausmus said he plans to make some kind of contribution to an organization related to preventing domestic abuse or helping victims of it. However, he will not make public the details of that action.