Yankees Outfielder Blames Coffee For His Poor Performance

While I was looking for articles for my weekly coffee news round up, Fresh Brews, I came across this story, Damon cuts caffeine, back in lineup: Outfielder hopeful that less coffee will help ‘fluttering eyes.’

Last Thursday, when the Yankees were playing their rivals the Boston Red Sox, a Yankees outfielder named Johnny Damon fumbled and dropped a routine popup. Damon has been under performing in the field, at bat and this error in the outfield was a perfect example of it. Luckily, the Red Sox weren’t able to take advantage of the error, but they did go on to beat the Yankees.

Not really, the kind of story you’d expect on a coffee blog, but Damon and the Yankees are blaming his subpar performance on the poor, defenseless coffee he drinks. He only drinks three coffees or energy drinks to get him going, but the Yankees medical staff have ordered him to cut back on his caffeine intake. He’s been complaining that his eyes fluttering and they think caffeine might be the cause.

I hope it works, but on Saturday he had a caffeine headache and went 0-4 (which, is very bad) in the Yankees loss to their other rival, the New York Mets. If he doesn’t show some improvement today, I think he should start drinking more coffee.

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