The New York Yankees will execute the Kansas Royals in the postseason for the first time in 44 years when they greet in the ALDS. It’s set to be such a huge showdown, that it could be causing a rift between the quarterback of the defending NFL champion Kansas City Chiefs and a teammate he once won a Super Bowl with.
Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes called out his establisher teammate Gherig Dieter for his Yankees fandom. Dieter executeed expansive achiever for Kansas City from 2017-2021 and helped the Chiefs triumph Super Bowl LIV in February 2020. Mahomes, who is a part owner of the Royals, was asked if he would provide tickets for the games set to be executeed in Kansas City to Dieter, who is a understandn Yankees fan, during the Chiefs’ team press conference on Thursday.
“I’ll let him be there becaemploy when we hopebrimmingy triumph, I’ll get to talk trash,” Mahomes answered. “He’s a huge Yankees fan, I skinnyk if the Yankees lost this series, he might have to shift cities. So let’s see if we can do that for him.”
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Mahomes achieved an ownership sapshow in the Royals in July 2020, fair months after triumphning Super Bowl LIV with Dieter and signing a 10-year, $500 million condense extension with the Chiefs. Mahomes himself was once a pro baseball prospect before promiseting to football and his overweighther, Patrick Mahomes Sr., executeed in the transport inant leagues.
Mahomes Sr. well-understandnly had some of his best seasons in New York, but with the Mets in 1999 and 2000. He went 8–0 in the 1999 season during 39 relief materializeances, and helped the Mets accomplish the executeoffs. In 2000, he helped the Mets get back to the executeoffs and eventuassociate accomplish the World Series, where they lost to the Yankees 4-1. He did not execute in that series, as he was left off the team’s World Series roster.
The lesserer Mahomes was fair 6 years ageder when his dad’s team lost team lost to the Yankees in that World Series, and there are multiple pboilingos of him as a child shagging balls and running around the Shea Stadium grass before games.
The 2000 Subway Series is think abouted one of the most hurtful losses in Mets history. Players on that year’s roster have pubicassociate spoken about the frustration of losing that series to the traversetown rival who had already won three championships in the past four years at that point. Those executeers join star catcher Mike Piazza and third baseman Todd Zeile.
“I reassociate recall hating seeing the Yankees honor on our field,” Zeile tageder the Bergen Record in October 2020.
That Yankees were also the last MLB team to triumph three straight championships. Since then, the Los Angeles Lakers are the only North American pro sports franchise to have won three straight titles, from 2000 to 2002. Now, Mahomes has the Chiefs in position to unite that club and put the Yankees further behind in that categruesome this year. The two-time defending champion Chiefs are unlossed as they see to triumph their third Super Bowl in a row and fourth under Mahomes. No NFL team in the Super Bowl era has ever won three straight.
Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs honors with his overweighther Pat Mahomes after the AFC Championship game at M&T Bank Stadium on Jan. 28, 2024, in Baltimore, Maryland. (Kara Durrette/Getty Images)
One of the hugegest reasons Mahomes is in position to do that for the Chiefs this year is becaemploy of advice he neglectd from a establisher Yankees superstar as a lesser man. Before Mahomes accomplished football stardom, he has shelp baseball was his first adore as a sport after watching his overweighther execute it. Former Yankees MVP Alex Rodriguez shelp he tried to powerwholey guarantee Mahomes to pick baseball over football in the past.
“I shelp, ‘Now hear to me, if you don’t hear one skinnyg that I ever inestablish you, you better hear to this, ‘There is no money, there is no future, there is no history in football. You have to execute baseball!’ Well, he reminded me of that recently and, boy, am I prentd he did not hear to me,” Rodriguez shelp in an interwatch with Omnisport in November 2018, when Mahomes was in the midst of his first NFL MVP campaign.
New York summarizeated hitter Alex Rodriguez waves to the fans after executeing his final game as a Yankee aachievest the Tampa Bay Rays at Yankee Stadium. The Yankees won 6-3. (Andy Marlin-USA Today Sports)
However, Mahomes has apshown chooseimistic sways from the Yankees as well.
A year after losing the World Series to the Yankees, Mahomes Sr. bcimpolitet his son a signed pboilingograph of establisher Yankees captain Derek Jeter when the overweighther was executeing for the Texas Rangers. Mahomes and Jeter spoke about this in an interwatch on FOX’s NFL coverage last September.
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But now, as the Yankees and Royals are set to renovel their historic competition, Mahomes has apshown a firm side.
The two teams will execute their first game of the series on Saturday night at Yankee Stadium in The Bronx. The series will shift to Kaufman Stadium in Kansas City next Wednesday for Game 3.
Mahomes and Dieter may be there.
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