Cubs Pete Crow-Armstrong disses Dodgers fans with

What’s not to love about Pete Crow-Armstrong? The younger, gifted Chicago Cubs heart fielder is someway concurrently tremendous cool and fiery. Nicknamed merely PCA, he ought to be an entertaining and achieved participant to watch for many years.

And he’s Southern California born and bred, the product of esteemed diamond manufacturing facility Harvard-Westlake High.

So why oh why did these phrases come out of his mouth during an interview for a 4,500-word article printed Monday in Chicago Magazine?

“I love Chicago more and more,” he said. “It’s just an incredible city. The people are great. They give a [crap]. 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.”

The love of Chicago and Cubs fans? Understood.

The dissing of all Dodgers fans as photo-obsessed, uncaring whatevers? Laughable.

The Dodgers turned the first crew to draw 4 million fans in 2025 and have exceeded 3.7 million paying clients every non-COVID season since 2013.

And it’s a false narrative to counsel the devotion is merely a byproduct of back-to-back World Series titles and a star-studded lineup. Remember, the Dodgers didn’t win a title from 1989 through 2019, a 31-year drought during which their attendance exceeded 3 million 25 instances.

So, where did a baseball-loving future MLB star growing up in Sherman Oaks come to such a contorted conclusion?

Blame it on dad.

PCA penned a first-person article for the Player’s Tribune in September that spelled it out:

“Growing up in L.A., my dad gave me a couple of rules. 1) I couldn’t root for the Dodgers. 2) I couldn’t root for the Cardinals.

“He’s from Naperville, just outside Chicago. He didn’t force me to be a Cubs fan, but let’s just say it was heavily encouraged.”

The Cubs received the World Series for the first time in 108 years in 2016. PCA was 14, and he and his dad, actor Matthew John Armstrong, watched Game 7 together on tv. Dad cried.

“I don’t think I fully got it in the moment, you know?” PCA wrote. “I was like, Dad, don’t be weird … stop crying. But I’m sure almost every Cub fan of a certain age had tears in their eyes that night. And now, a bit older, I get it.”

PCA signed with the New York Mets after being drafted nineteenth total out of high college in 2020. He was traded to the Cubs a yr later for Javier Báez, Trevor Williams and money and swiftly rose through the minor leagues, making his Cubs debut in 2023.

Last season he broke out as a bona fide star, changing into the first MLB participant to accumulate 25 home runs, 25 stolen bases and 70 runs batted in during the first half of a season. He also cemented himself as the top heart fielder in the sport.

PCA slumped during the second half and completed with 31 homers and 35 stolen bases to go with a .247 batting average. Although the fans may not have seen with all the picture-taking and whatever, he has finished nicely in six video games at Dodger Stadium, batting .333 with a home run and 5 RBIs.

But according to his teammate and close buddy Nico Hoerner, PCA feels at home in the pleasant confines of Wrigley Field.

“That’s one thing that is very cool about him that not a lot of younger players get,” Hoerner said. “He couldn’t have more of an appreciation for the history of the game and playing in Wrigley Field. He’s excited to be a part of the city of Chicago in a way a lot of guys don’t really understand.”