Ouch! Posada may be done for season

From Tyler Kepner of the Times:

Posada said this surgery would be more intensive that his last surgery, which occurred after the 2001 season. He was ready for spring training the next February, but he said the surgery this time could carry a six-month recovery period. Having surgery now could be Posada’s only option to start 2009 healthy.

This sucks. Not so much for the immediate future as much as it's implications on the next three years of his stupid contract. If the extra year/money was a tip of the cap to him from the Steinbrenners for all he's given this organization, then so be it. But the second this contract interferes with planning out the future (see Teixeira, Mark) I'll be royally pissed.