Sometimes We Mean It

Celtics president Danny Ainge told sports radio WEEI this afternoon that forward Kevin Garnett has a strained right calf and “will be out a couple of weeks at most to be conservative” after viewing the MRI results.

Thank god.

The problem with the Internet, however, is that it lets anyone become otaku about anything instantly. In the ’80s, you couldn’t get up to speed on an entire genre in a weekend. You had to wait, month to month, for the issues of Watchmen to come out. We couldn’t BitTorrent the latest John Woo film or digitally download an entire decade’s worth of grunge or hip hop. Hell, there were a few weeks during the spring of 1991 when we couldn’t tell whether Nirvana or Tad would be the next band to break big. Imagine the terror!