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globeandmail.com: From Deep - Another edition of ‘Digressions with Sam’
Q: Would you say something to some who has cancer?

A: I can’t believe you asked me that. Nobody would say that. No one would do that.

Q: Apparently so.

A: Who? [Sam proving he does not actually read the papers, or ride an elevator with a TV screen or listen to The Fan]

Q: That’s what the hockey guy did.

A: Well don’t put basketball players in the same class as hockey players. Dude, anyone who would do that is low. Come on, who would do that? That’s low. That’s low.

Warming up now…..

A: But you know what’s strange about it? If a basketball player said it, of if I said it, that would be front page. I would be called upstairs, I would be in trouble, I’d be fined. Hockey player say it? It’s nothing.

Q: It was on the front page…

A: But nothing’s going to happen. It’s part of hockey. That’s they culture [fingers making those little quotation marks around culture]. If hockey players go in the stands, it’s hockey. Right? Seriously. Basketball players go in the stands? Ohhhhh, the sport is out of control.

Hockey players fight up in the stands! Basketball has one incident and all of a sudden….oooooohhhhhhh. It was a major thing.

How long in history have hockey players been going up in the stands? Since time began.

Why don’t you all write about it like you when it happened one time at a basketball game? One time.

I have my theories why, but I’m not going to comment.