Maybe sports commentator Chris Myers should stick to talking about sports. There's a lot going on these days: LeBron James will be a free agent soon, the Yankees came from behind to beat the Red Sox and the Pacquio-Mayweather fight may actually go down.

Instead, while filling in on the Dan Patrick show, Myers took a shot at Hurricane Katrina victims, comparing them to victims of the recent Tennessee floods, Meyers said:

My best is and maybe it's a little corny, but I like it. It's a great country here. We have disastrous issues, where people pull together and help themselves, and I thought the people in Tennessee, unlike, and I'm not going to name names. When a natural disaster hits people, we're not standing on a rooftop trying to blame the government, okay. They helped each other out through this.

Middle Tennessee, where a lot of hardworking, tax-paying, legal American citizens have been affected by the floods and are trying to rebuild their lives, and they are helping out, and I think that other people around the country, of course the music industry in and around Nashville, [is] helping, without making a big deal out of it, and I think that's a good thing.

Myers' comments are obviously coded racial language for black and white. Myers is pitting the "poor" residents of New Orleans against the "hardworking, tax-paying and legal" residents of Tennessee. The implication is that if those poor people in New Orleans had their stuff together and had been more hard-working, more patriotic, more dedicated, not undocumented immigrants, they wouldn't need help from the government.

Earth to Myers: Hurricane Katrina was one of the greatest disasters in American history. Why is government assistance for people who are stranded on a rooftop without food or who lost everything bad? Why is government money to repair infrastructure and to prevent a repeat of the events after Hurricane Katrina wrong? New Orleans residents from all classes and races suffered from the aftereffects of Hurricane Katrina.

Maybe Myers doesn't realize that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has already approved $100 million in assistance to more than 16,000 people in several Tennessee counties. President Barack Obama has asked for $5.1 billion in additional money for cash-strapped FEMA. At least some of that money will go to those hard-working, legal residents in Tennessee.

And what's wrong with questioning if the government could have done more to prevent the flooding that occurred after the hurricane? How does Myers expect things to change if citizens do not challenge their government?

As the folks at the Big Lead pointed out:

It's amazing how a certain segment of society has conveniently grasped the "teach a man to fish" parable, yet entirely missed the rest of the New Testament where Jesus helps and heals people regardless of whether they deserve it.

Maybe Myers should face the same fate as NBA player Paul Shirley. He was let go from ESPN after he blamed Haitians for the major earthquake that struck their island earlier this year.

So, for all the sportscasters who are thinking of making a foray in to social commentary beyond the boundaries of sports, don't do it unless you know what you're talking about. It didn't work for Rush Limbaugh, and it won't work for you.