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.