August 26, 2004

Ouch

News item: Montreal Expos second baseman Jose Vidro will have knee surgery; his season is over.

Happens all the time, right? Yeah, but the description of the surgery is what caught my attention:

"(The doctor) will split the patella tendon and remove a small area of scar tissue and chronic inflammatory tissue," said Bruce Thomas, the Expos' team physician. "He has a nodule almost the size of a BB, but it acts like a foreign body in his knee when he starts to pivot or make cuts or when he goes to his back hand.

I've had some experience with a severed patella tendon; I hope he recovers with less stiffness than I have in my knee.

Posted by Linkmeister at August 26, 2004 12:34 PM
Comments

Boy, me too.

Vidro's the 2B on my APBA team, and all I have behind him are the likes of Bobby Hill, Denny Hocking, Jose Reyes, Felipe Lopez, and Antonio Perez (who hasn't played in MLB yet this year). Except that some of those guys will be needed at shortstop, where Rich Aurilia just doesn't cut it.

Major rebuilding coming soon...

Posted by: N in Seattle at August 26, 2004 02:51 PM

My knee hurts from yoga..... ;^{

Posted by: toxiclabrat at August 29, 2004 04:25 AM