Cubs All-Star Pete Crow-Armstrong takes shot at…
The next time the Chicago Cubs step into Chavez Ravine, don’t count on a heat Hollywood welcome for Pete Crow-Armstrong.
The 23-year-old All-Star, a Los Angeles native with industry bloodlines and a Little League past in Sherman Oaks, determined this week to take a shot at his hometown followers, the two-time defending World Series champion followers.
Pete Crow-Armstrong of the Chicago Cubs appears to be like on before the sport between the Chicago Bears and the Los Angeles Rams in the NFC Divisional Playoffs at Soldier Field. Getty Images
In a profile with Chicago Magazine, Crow-Armstrong drew a line in the ivy-covered filth between Cubs followers and Dodgers followers.
“[Cubs fans] actually give a s***,” he said. “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.”
That wasn’t a slip of the tongue. This wasn’t positioned on a tee for him to take a shot at Dodgers followers by the creator of the article. It wasn’t a main query. It was PCA who inserted Dodgers followers into the chat.
And in a metropolis that has stuffed Dodger Stadium with more than 4 million followers — and is rocking every night time from April through October — the remark lands like a brushback pitch headed for the chin.
Here’s the twist: Crow-Armstrong grew up in L.A. The son of actors Matthew John Armstrong and Ashley Crow, who are recognized for their roles in the show “Heroes.” And have starred in movies like “Minority Report,” “Little Big League,” and “The Good Son.” (Ashley Crow performed the mother in “Little Big League“).
Fans in the group during a Los Angeles Dodgers spring training recreation against the Angels. Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images
Crow-Armstrong attended video games at Dodger Stadium. He performed Little League under the Southern California solar. Yet, as he wrote in The Players’ Tribune, his father gave him two guidelines: never root for the Dodgers, never root for the Cardinals. Maybe that has one thing to do with it.
Fine. Baseball loyalties are inherited like eye coloration. But questioning the baseball IQ of Dodgers followers? That’s out of bounds.
This is the same fan base that lives and dies with pitch sequencing, that debates bullpen leverage over sushi in the third inning, the followers that began Fernandomania, and turned Clayton Kershaw into a people hero.
The same fan base that will circle April 24–26 in pink ink when the Cubs arrive to city.
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Crow-Armstrong’s feedback will play fantastically on the North Side, where edge and defiance are currency. After his antics in the second-half of last season, his feedback will endear himself to Cubs followers.
But baseball has a long reminiscence. And Chavez Ravine? It doesn’t neglect its own.
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