The next time the Chicago Cubs enter Chavez Ravine, don’t expect a warm 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, decided this week to take a shot at his hometown fans, the two-time defending World Series champion fans.
In one profile at Chicago MagazineCrow-Armstrong drew a line in the ivy-covered dirt between Cubs fans and Dodgers fans.
“[Cubs fans] actually give a shit,” he said. “It’s not just baseball fans that go to the game like Dodgers fans to take pictures and whatever. They pay attention. They care.”
That was no slip of the tongue. This was not put on a tee by the author of the article to take a chance on Dodgers fans. It wasn’t a leading question. It was PCA that put Dodgers fans in the chat.
And in a city that fills Dodger Stadium with them more than 4 million fans – and rocks every night from April through October – the comment lands like a pitch to the chin.
Here’s the twist: Crow-Armstrong grew up in LA. The son of actors Matthew John Armstrong and Ashley Crow, who are known for their roles in the show ‘Heroes’. And starred in films such as ‘Minority Report’, ‘Little Big League’ and ‘The Good Son’. (Ashley Crow played the mother in “Little Big League“).
Crow-Armstrong attended games at Dodger Stadium. He played Little League under the Southern California sun. Still, like him wrote in The Players’ Tribunehis father gave him two rules: never root for the Dodgers, never root for the Cardinals. Maybe that has something to do with it.
Fine. Baseball loyalty is inherited like eye color. But do you question the baseball IQ of Dodgers fans? That’s out of bounds.
This is the same fanbase that lives and dies by pitch sequencing, that debates the influence of bullpen on third-inning sushi, the fans that started Fernandomania and turned Clayton Kershaw into a folk hero.
The same fan base that will circle April 24-26 in red ink when the Cubs arrive in town.
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Crow-Armstrong’s comments will resonate beautifully on the North Side, where wit and defiance are commonplace. After his antics in the second half of last seasonhis comments will be loved by Cubs fans.
But baseball has a long memory. And the Chavez Canyon? It does not forget its own.
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