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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.