Adam Schefter’s Unfortunate Starbucks Saga, And The Man Who Claimed To Be His Barista

According to a Google search I just did, approximately 60 million people go to Starbucks every week. One such person is Adam Schefter, ESPN’s NFL insider who dabbles in coverage of other sports. Schefter is apparently a loyal fan of the chain of coffee shops, and on the Thursday of the NFL Draft, he went to get himself a shot of caffeine before what was surely going to be a long day.

But tragedy struck. The lid on Schefter’s cup of joe wasn’t put on all the way, which led to this tweet getting sent.

Sure, this is not great, but it’s not the end of the world, either. This is probably something that happens with some frequency, plus I’m sure Schefter had a change of clothes with him at his hotel and he was able to get the shirt he was wearing dry cleaned. Still, it wasn’t a huge deal.

That is until Twitter user and person you should follow immediately @treblaw decided to tell the whole wide world that he was the mischievous barista who set out to ruin Schefter’s day.

Treb, of course, was just goofing around. He told the site Roar Lions Roar, where he is a writer (and, full disclosure, I am an editor), that he is not the barista and that “I read Schefter’s tweet as I was getting ready in the morning. I wrote the tweet and hit send. This is truly how much thought went into it.”

But this didn’t happen until his tweet blew all the way up. It started because Pro Football Talk hit him with a retweet …

… while former Eagles linebacker Emmanuel Acho sent this tweet out.

Another former Eagles linebacker, Ike Reese, also fell into Treb’s dastardly trap.

Acho came back into the fold when he DM’d Treb to get the details.

Even Starbucks felt the need to comment on the whole ordeal, as did Schefter, who called him a “fake barista” two days after all this silliness went down.

Things died down a bit over the weekend, but picked back up again on Monday. First, a radio program in Philadelphia labeled Treb a joke.

And then, in what is the best moment in ESPN history, Schefter was asked about this entire ordeal on SportsCenter. This entire saga got so huge that Starbucks’ national headquarters called Schefter’s local store in New York and asked which barista didn’t put the lid on properly. (As you may recall, this happened in Philadelphia.)

We reached out to Treb for his thoughts on the developments from the past few days. After mentioning that his original tweet earned a like from NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport over the weekend, he told us “Twitter is — by and large — the worst website in modern history.”

All of us at Uproxx Sports are calling on a beer summit between Schefter and Treb so they can discuss everything they went down. If beer doesn’t work, maybe they can talk about things over a cup of coffee.