Redsock fans plan groundbreaking Tommy John surgery for John Lackey

Doctors plan to make the initial incision at the top of the skull, then work their way down to the elbow.

They wanted to rebuild Lackey's elbow with tendons from Curt Schilling's ankle, but there are still vestiges of lead-based red paint on the foot, so the procedure was abandoned. They now intend to use the strongest tendons in Schilling's body: the ones that hold his fat gut in place.