It's almost as if you blink around here and somebody has an injury setback of some sort. Johnny Damon was not in the lineup tonight because his right foot now hurts in more areas other than just below his right toe, and Gary Sheffield was scratched toward the end of batting practice because of soreness in his bothersome left wrist.
We didn't get to speak with Sheffield because the clubhouse was closed when the announcement came, but Damon held court for several minutes. He was barefoot at the time, with his right foot heavily taped. It also was easy to see Damon walking around the clubhouse flat-footed. He says he doesn't feel as much pain that way, because there is no pressure being placed on where the broken bone is.
The bone he broke way back in April is the sesamoid bone, "which comes from the Latin word for sesame seed," he said. Everyone laughed, but Damon apparently was not completely kidding. Check this out, courtesy of Dynomed.com:
"The sesamoid bones, so-called because of their resemblance to sesame seeds, are located under the first metatarsal bone in the foot (behind and under the big toe)."
The photo above is credited to footpaininfo.com