Pete Crow-Armstrong simply can’t get out of his personal method.
Over the offseason, the Chicago Cubs outfielder inexplicably made some derogatory feedback about fans of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Made much more inexplicable by his personal background.
In an interview with Chicago Magazine earlier in 2026, he stated, “I love Chicago more and more. It’s just an incredible city. The people are great. They give a s***. They aren’t just baseball fans who go to the game like Dodgers fans to take pictures and whatever. They are paying attention. They care.”
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Here’s the factor about that. It is, in fact, flawed. The Dodgers have led the league in attendance each single season for the previous decade. But PCA wasn’t accomplished there.
Chicago Cubs outfielder Pete Crow-Armstrong reacts after putting out in opposition to the Los Angeles Dodgers in the course of the eighth inning at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, Calif., on Apr. 25, 2026. (Kiyoshi Mio/Imagn Images)
“What I wish people could see through is, I’m not getting at die-hard Dodger fans,” he stated. “They obviously exist, they’re out there. I grew up seeing those people, too, but it’s a see-me city, man. It’s a Lakers city where people show up to sit courtside and look good. And I view it the same way here.”
Here’s the factor about this: PCA is telling on himself. For those that don’t know, he grew up the son of two profitable actors. Then attended Harvard-Westlake, an elite non-public college in Studio City the place tuition presently runs practically $55,000 per yr, for seventh grade and up. The purpose he thinks LA is a “courtside,” “see-me” metropolis is as a result of that’s who he’s, and who he is aware of. He’s a wealthy child who solely ever knew different wealthy youngsters.
Well, that wealthy child who trashed Dodgers fans had simply in regards to the worst possible day at Dodger Stadium on Saturday afternoon. And the fans, after they may tear themselves away from taking images, beloved it.
Pete Crow-Armstrong Gets Humiliated, Humiliates Himself
While the Cubs took the primary sport of the three-game sequence, the second rapidly spiraled for Chicago — and PCA was proper in the midst of it. He struck out main off the highest of the third inning. Then struck out once more main off the highest of the fifth inning.
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The backside of the fifth inning although, was the play of the sport.
Alex Freeland drilled a excessive, deep fly ball to middle subject that despatched PCA again to the warning monitor the place he…nicely, made nearly one of many worst reads or defensive performs you’ll ever see.
Makes you marvel if he was too distracted by all of the images being taken within the stands to choose up the ball.
With the Cubs now trailing 8-4, and the sport on the road, Crow-Armstrong got here up within the prime of the sixth with one out and the bases loaded, which means he represented the tying run. And then he promptly struck out for the third time, swinging over a slider from reliever Jack Dreyer.
He had yet another at-bat although, an opportunity to redeem himself after a troublesome sport. And within the prime of the eighth inning, with a runner in scoring place, he struck out swinging on three straight pitches. That’s 0-4 with 4 strikeouts, 9 swings and misses, and an terrible defensive misplay. It’s arduous to do a lot worse than that.
Chicago Cubs middle fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong can’t attain a ball hit for a double by Los Angeles Dodgers’ Alex Freeland in the course of the fifth inning of a baseball sport in Los Angeles on April 25, 2026. (Mark J. Terrill/AP)
PCA was given an opportunity to make clear his feedback in the course of the sequence, after which promptly informed the Los Angeles Times that he likes enjoying in entrance of his residence fans higher than highway fans.
“Each fan base has their own personality,” he stated. “And I was really just comparing my own two experiences: playing for the Cubs, and people showing up and enjoying it, and there’s just an air about the place; and then here, it is what it is like, maybe if I played here, it’d be different. But I don’t.”
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Gee, what an excellent statement. He will get handled higher by Cubs fans than Dodgers fans as a result of he performs for the Cubs. Has to be the primary participant to ever discover this, proper?
And once more, his observations are, to place it mildly, factually inaccurate. Here’s a photograph from the Wrigley Field bleachers posted to Instagram only a few days in the past.
Here’s one other one, posted three days in the past in the course of the center of an inning with gamers on the sector.
This is not to choose on Cubs fans, although in fact, Wrigley Field is way extra of a vacationer attraction for generic baseball fans who aren’t within the sport at hand than Dodger Stadium. It’s to focus on that taking images and looking out at smartphones at sporting occasions has turn out to be part of the fashionable gameday expertise. And appearing as if one fan base is worse on this regard than every other is absurd.
St. Louis Cardinals fans, for many years, had been routinely described because the “best in baseball.” Now that the workforce is in a rebuilding section, they’re within the backside half of the league in attendance behind franchises with little-praised fan bases just like the Arizona Diamondbacks. The San Diego Padres, by no means praised as an elite fan base, now promote out the overwhelming majority of their video games. Fans are fans. They like successful and do not need to pay cash to assist dropping.
Though possibly Pete Crow-Armstrong was too involved about being “seen” with star patterns dyed into his hair to understand it.
