{"id":590975,"date":"2026-02-24T22:07:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/590975\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T22:07:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:07:19","slug":"bulletin-board-material-dodgers-fans-criticize-cowardly-comments-by-socal-native","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/590975\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Bulletin Board Material\u2019: Dodgers Fans Criticize \u2018Cowardly\u2019 Comments by SoCal Native"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Dodgers fans aren\u2019t holding back after Southern California native and Chicago Cub Pete Crow-Armstrong took a shot at them in a recent interview.<\/p>\n<p>Crow-Armstrong\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/sports\/mlb\/chicago-cubs\/pete-crow-armstrong-compares-cubs-dodgers-fans-in-chicago-magazine-interview\/3896636\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:graced the cover of Chicago magazine;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">graced the cover of Chicago magazine<\/a>, which said he let \u201cit all hang out\u201d in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagomag.com\/chicago-magazine\/march-2026\/welcome-to-the-pca-show\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:a Wayne Drehs profile published on Monday;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">a Wayne Drehs profile published on Monday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Apr 22, 2025; Chicago, Illinois, USA; Chicago Cubs outfielder Pete Crow-Armstrong (4) yells after he hits a two run home run during the fifth inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Wrigley Field. Mandatory Credit: Matt Marton-Imagn Images\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/8bcf8ad7586fab6fd2d52f75bd06d015.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Apr 22, 2025; Chicago, Illinois, USA; Chicago Cubs outfielder Pete Crow-Armstrong (4) yells after he hits a two run home run during the fifth inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Wrigley Field. Mandatory Credit: Matt Marton-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>When asked about his time playing in Chicago, he praised the fans, but he did so by characterizing Dodgers supporters as uninterested in baseball.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love Chicago more and more. It\u2019s just an incredible city. The people are great,\u201d he said. \u201cThey give a s\u2014. They aren\u2019t just baseball fans who go to the game like Dodgers fans to take pictures or whatever. They are paying attention. They care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dodgers Fans Fire Back at PCA<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Dodgers\/comments\/1rd25nd\/bulletin_board_material\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:On Reddit;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">On Reddit<\/a>, Dodgers fans sounded off on Crow-Armstrong, contrasting his recent statements about the Boys in Blue with remarks by other stars.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, Juan Soto said he <a href=\"https:\/\/dodgersnation.com\/mets-star-sends-shohei-ohtani-mvp-warning\/2026\/02\/23\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:plans to challenge Shohei Ohtani for the National League Most Valuable Player award;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">plans to challenge Shohei Ohtani for the National League Most Valuable Player award<\/a>, noting that \u201che better keep doing what he\u2019s doing, because I\u2019m coming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Fans like u\/EggHeadMagic characterized Soto\u2019s comments as \u201ccompetitiveness,\u201d adding that \u201cPCA going after fans is just cowardly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love Juan when we\u2019re not playing him but this PCA comment is so cringe. Hope the baseball gods give him what he deserves,\u201d commented u\/Spaghettibeach.<\/p>\n<p>Others pointed out that, as a Sherman Oaks native and graduate of Harvard-Westlake School, PCA grew up surrounded by Dodgers fans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShows his character. S\u2014ing on your hometown for no reason. He\u2019s trash,\u201d said u\/Rockitttla.<\/p>\n<p>PCA Has Long Been a Cubs Fan<\/p>\n<p>As detailed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2026-02-24\/so-cal-product-cubs-pete-crow-armstrong-disses-dodgers-fans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Steve Henson of the Los Angeles Times;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Steve Henson of the Los Angeles Times<\/a>, though, PCA was born into a Cubs family.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>His father is an Illinois native and forbade his son from rooting for the Dodgers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrowing up in L.A., my dad gave me a couple of rules. 1) I couldn\u2019t root for the Dodgers. 2) I couldn\u2019t root for the Cardinals,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theplayerstribune.com\/pete-crow-armstrong-chicago-cubs-mlb-baseball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:PCA wrote in The Players\u2019 Tribune last year.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">PCA wrote in The Players\u2019 Tribune last year.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s from Naperville, just outside Chicago. He didn\u2019t force me to be a Cubs fan, but let\u2019s just say it was heavily encouraged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sounds like that lesson from dad stuck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Dodgers fans aren\u2019t holding back after Southern California native and Chicago Cub Pete Crow-Armstrong took a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2399],"tags":[5,17303,160,138,24,4245,161,134,774,57,4,35,468],"class_list":{"0":"post-590975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-cubs","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-baseball-fans","10":"tag-cardinals","11":"tag-chicago","12":"tag-chicago-cubs","13":"tag-chicagocubs","14":"tag-cubs","15":"tag-juan-soto","16":"tag-los-angeles","17":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","18":"tag-mlb","19":"tag-pete-crow-armstrong","20":"tag-shohei-ohtani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}