Little Hawk is correct, but there's much more to the story.

Joe Shlobotnik's baseball career came to an untimely end due to a soda straw wrapper being carelessly blown onto the infield of Shea Stadium by seven-year-old Jason Bryant of the Bronx. An errant gust of wind blew the offending wrapper into Shlobotnik's left eye, doing irrepairable damage. Young Bryant's father was heard to remark, "Holy shit! You really can put someone's eye out with one of those things!"

After leaving baseball, Shlobotnik, who had been an avid amateur musician for years, put together a band known as "One-Eyed Joe and the Schmoes". The band stayed together for about ten years with Shlobotnik as frontman, charting a handful of minor hits. Joe was forced to leave the band in 1996 after trying unsuccessfully to pork the lead guitarist's wife, a minor movie star whose fame was based more upon her bra size than her acting abilities. The band continued touring after Shlobotnik's departure, changing their name to "Just the Schmoes With No Mo' Joe."

Upon his depature from the Schmoes, and after a brief stint in rehab, Shlobotnik purchased a defunct diner in Queens and sunk his entire life savings into refurbishing it. It has been moderately successful though Joe sometimes wishes he had never seen a cheeseburger. The soda straws at Shlobotnik's Diner do not come with tissue-paper wrappers.