I just can’t get worked up over the firing of Fox Sports baseball analyst Steve Lyons, whose inappropriate comments during Game 3 of the American League championship series cost him his job.

Lyons’ comments came during a lighthearted back and forth with analyst Lou Piniella, who compared Oakland shortstop Marco Scutaro’s surprising run production to “finding a wallet on a Friday night.”

A few minutes after the comment, Piniella uttered something in Spanish, and Lyons’ response is the reason he is unemployed today.

“‘Lou’s habla-ing some Espanol there, and I’m still looking for my wallet,” Lyons cracked. “I don’t understand him, and I don’t want to sit close to him now.”

The two laughed. Little did Lyons know it would be his last time laughing in the Fox Sports broadcast booth.

While Lyons’ comments certainly could be perceived as a negative toward Hispanics, I’m much more upset with TV analyst and former Miami player Lamar Thomas, whose shockingly stupid commentary during the Florida International-Miami brawl Saturday easily usurped Lyons as far as depicting minorities negatively.

Thomas, who is black, cheered as his fellow Hurricanes embarrassed themselves in an on-field fight with FIU that resulted in 31 players getting suspended from both teams.

“Now that’s what I’m talking about,” Thomas bragged as helmets swung and players attacked one another with little regard. “You come into our house, you should get your behind kicked. You don’t come into the OB (Orange Bowl) playing that stuff.”

Thomas sounded like a fool, behaving as if he were watching a professional fight instead of one of the biggest disgraces of the college football season.

“I say, why don’t they just meet outside in the tunnel after the ball game and get it on some more?” Thomas crowed. “You don’t come into the OB, baby. We’ve had a down couple years, but you don’t come in here talking smack. Not in our house.”

Lyons lost his job, and Thomas did, too.

Can you imagine if a white analyst would have said what Thomas did on-air? There would be no need for consultation, for sure.

What he said could send the underlying message that it’s no big deal if blacks root one another on in a display of shame.

Thomas’ buffoonish cheering not only reflected poorly on him and other minorities, but on Miami, which for years has battled an outlaw reputation. This was the Hurricanes’ third fight in their last seven games, which should be condemned, not celebrated-especially given that Miami is unranked and irrelevant this college football season.

Thomas told ESPN’s Dan Patrick on his radio show Monday that he was “a little hyped up,” as if that alone atones for why he reduced himself to nothing more than an instigator on a school playground.

“Anybody who knows me knows I played the game of football with my heart on my sleeve,” Thomas told Patrick.

But he broadcast the Miami-FIU brawl with his brain somewhere else.