Phil Hughes tops Derek Jeter in Starbucks wars
On Thursday, a photographer spotted Derek Jeter leaving Starbucks with a coffee cup labeled “Philip.” It’s a hilarious image:
Coffee-cup analysts around the Internet speculated that the cup could
have been yet another in a long line of silly misinterpretations of
names by busy baristas, though it’s unclear how anyone who listened to
“Derek” would hear “Philip” — especially when the person ordering the
coffee is definitely Derek Jeter. Seems more likely he’d wind up with
“Derrick” or “Eriq.”
Others guessed that Derek Jeter uses a fake name to order coffee, as he
likely does when checking into hotels. That makes more sense, but,
again, the person ordering the coffee in this case just so happened to
obviously be Derek Jeter (while wearing a white shirt with navy blue
stripes, no less), so it’s unclear what purpose his using an alias would
serve.
A third popular line of thought was that the coffee in Jeter’s hand was
intended for someone actually named “Philip,” either an unfortunate
Starbucks patron who had his coffee stolen by famous millionaire Derek
Jeter or Jeter’s Yankees teammate Phil Hughes. On Friday, in response to
the original photo, Hughes fired back:
Sanderson, as Hughes and everyone familiar with Jeter’s baseball-reference.com page know, is Jeter’s middle name.
I personally would have tried to tweak Jeter with a coffee cup labeled “DEREK EATER,” but that might be a more difficult plan to execute.
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