Katie Nolan, host of Garbage Time, really nails the whole Greg Hardy thing above. Anyone who saw his little chat with the media, where he showed no remorse for his criminal past and instead said he was sad he couldn’t support his teammates – the Cowboy way – already knew that he was a bad person.

Nolan’s bigger issue, again a correct one, is with Hardy jumping right back in to disrespecting women, and the media members eating it right up. We deserve better. Hardy deserves less of the “haha welcome back,” pat-on-the-back journalism that he was subjected to.

The same issue arose in the media’s handling of the Matt Barnes/Derek Fisher fight. Everyone on Twitter, radio, and TV laughed it off. “Oh, there goes crazy Matt Barnes being crazy again, how silly.” But Deadspin’s Albert Burneko – Sixers fans’ public enemy number one – was the first person I saw to actually take a sane, rational approach to what is a terrible story. “Invading the home of the woman on whose body he once left visible injuries to attack another man for dating her is almost as zany as the time he lied about dating Rihanna,” Burneko wrote. “What a knucklehead.” And he’s completely right. Matt Barnes drove almost 100 miles to establish his ownership rights over a woman who he’s been separated from for over a year, and we’re all laughing about it. That’s how episodes of shows on the ID Channel start.

We laugh off Hardy’s Gisele comments, and we laugh off the Matt Barnes story, and then we wonder why Hardy is still in the league (or sat out only a four-game suspension). You can’t have it both ways.

Kyle: And then there’s this:

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