Patrick Mahomes calls out ex-teammate for supporting Yankees over Royals in ALDS: ‘He might have to move’

The New York Yankees will play the Kansas Royals within the postseason for the primary time in 44 years after they meet within the ALDS. It is set to be such a giant showdown, that it might trigger a rift between the quarterback of the defending NFL champion Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and a teammate he as soon as received a Tremendous Bowl with. 

Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes mocked his former teammate Gherig Dieter for his Yankees fandom on Thursday. Dieter performed extensive receiver for Kansas Metropolis from 2017-2021 and helped the Chiefs win Tremendous Bowl LIV in February 2020. Mahomes, who is a component proprietor of the Royals, was requested if he would provide tickets for the video games set to be performed in Kansas Metropolis to Dieter, who’s a recognized Yankees fan, throughout the Chiefs’ staff press convention on Thursday. 

“I am going to let him be there as a result of after we hopefully win, I am going to get to speak trash,” Mahomes answered. “He is a giant Yankees fan, I feel if the Yankees misplaced this collection, he may need to maneuver cities. So let’s have a look at if we will do this for him.” 

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Mahomes bought an possession stake within the Royals in July 2020, simply months after successful Tremendous Bowl LIV with Dieter and signing a 10-year, $500 million contract extension with the Chiefs. Mahomes himself was as soon as a professional baseball prospect earlier than committing to soccer and his father, Patrick Mahomes Sr., performed within the main leagues. 

Mahomes Sr. famously had a few of his greatest seasons in New York, however with the Mets in 1999 and 2000. He went 8–0 within the 1999 season throughout 39 reduction appearances, and helped the Mets attain the playoffs. In 2000, he helped the Mets get again to the playoffs and finally attain the World Sequence, the place they misplaced to the Yankees 4-1. He didn’t play in that collection, as he was left off the staff’s World Sequence roster. 

The youthful Mahomes was simply 6 years previous when his dad’s staff misplaced staff misplaced to the Yankees in that World Sequence, and there are a number of images of him as a toddler shagging balls and working across the Shea Stadium grass earlier than video games. 

The 2000 Subway Sequence is taken into account one of the vital painful losses in Mets historical past. Gamers on that yr’s roster have pubically spoken concerning the frustration of dropping that collection to the crosstown rival who had already received three championships prior to now 4 years at that time. These gamers embrace star catcher Mike Piazza and third baseman Todd Zeile. 

“I actually bear in mind hating seeing the Yankees have fun on our area,” Zeile advised the Bergen Report in October 2020. 

That Yankees had been additionally the final MLB staff to win three straight championships. Since then, the Los Angeles Lakers are the one North American professional sports activities franchise to have received three straight titles, from 2000 to 2002. Now, Mahomes has the Chiefs in place to affix that membership and put the Yankees additional behind in that class this yr. The 2-time defending champion Chiefs are undefeated as they appear to win their third Tremendous Bowl in a row and fourth below Mahomes. No NFL staff within the Tremendous Bowl period has ever received three straight. 

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Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs celebrates together with his father Pat Mahomes after the AFC Championship recreation at M&T Financial institution Stadium on Jan. 28, 2024, in Baltimore, Maryland. (Kara Durrette/Getty Photographs)

One of many largest causes Mahomes is in place to try this for the Chiefs this yr is due to recommendation he ignored from a former Yankees celebrity as a younger man. Earlier than Mahomes reached soccer stardom, he has stated baseball was his old flame as a sport after watching his father play it. Former Yankees MVP Alex Rodriguez stated he tried to strongly persuade Mahomes to decide on baseball over soccer prior to now. 

“I stated, ‘Now take heed to me, when you don’t hear one factor that I ever inform you, you higher take heed to this, ‘There is no such thing as a cash, there isn’t any future, there isn’t any historical past in soccer. You need to play baseball!’ Properly, he jogged my memory of that just lately and, boy, am I glad he didn’t take heed to me,” Rodriguez stated in an interview with Omnisport in November 2018, when Mahomes was within the midst of his first NFL MVP marketing campaign. 

New York designated hitter Alex Rodriguez waves to the followers after enjoying his remaining recreation as a Yankee in opposition to the Tampa Bay Rays at Yankee Stadium. The Yankees received 6-3. (Andy Marlin-USA At this time Sports activities)

Nonetheless, Mahomes has taken constructive influences from the Yankees as nicely. 

A yr after dropping the World Sequence to the Yankees, Mahomes Sr. introduced his son a signed {photograph} of former Yankees captain Derek Jeter when the daddy was enjoying for the Texas Rangers. Mahomes and Jeter spoke about this in an interview on FOX’s NFL protection final September. 

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However now, because the Yankees and Royals are set to resume their historic rivalry, Mahomes has taken a agency facet. 

The 2 groups will play their first recreation of the collection on Saturday night time at Yankee Stadium in The Bronx. The collection will shift to Kaufman Stadium in Kansas Metropolis subsequent Wednesday for Recreation 3. 

Mahomes and Dieter could also be there. 

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