Did you get this from the above article, or did you actually watch the broadcast & hear something not reported here? The account in the article does not conform to your interpretation:
Piniella ... compar[ed] Scutaro's production to finding a "wallet on Friday" .... Lyons said that Piniella was "hablaing Espanol" - butchering the conjugation for the word "to speak" - and added, "I still can't find my wallet."
Based on this it sounds like Lyons was simply playing off of the odd expression Piniella had chosen to use. I believe the word for this is "banter" and it is commonplace in baseball broadcasting teams, at least when the PC police aren't on patrol.
The people who have brought about this kind of ultra intolerance of anything they find remotely offensive are the same ones who blow their own trumpets proclaiming how wonderfully tolerant they are.
To bring in their ideal utopia of tolerance (they hypocritically rationalize) a lot eggs and lives must be broken to terrorize anyone who does not instantly obey their orders of how to live.