Cubs star aims weird stray at Dodgers fans while begging for a contract extension

Like most fanbases, the Chicago Cubs' faithful certainly don't harbor any lost love for the baseball-ruining Los Angeles Dodgers. But among all the competitive National League teams out there, one would hardly call the relationship between the teams contentious or antagonistic.

Apparently, someone forgot to tell Pete Crow-Armstrong.

In a front-cover interview with Chicago Magazine, the Cubs' center fielder spoke about his pitiful second half in 2025 as well as his desire for a contract extension, framing it around his desire to spend his whole career in one city. Pretty standard fare for any MLB star.

But then PCA made an out-of-nowhere swipe at the Dodgers and their fans while trying to commend the passion of Chicago: "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 or whatever. They are paying attention. They care."

Cue the 50 Cent meme, I guess.

Pete Crow-Armstrong invites ugly comparisons between Dodgers, Cubs fans

While it's clear that Crow-Armstrong cherry-picked the Dodgers because of their status as the new Evil Empire in baseball, it's hard to see where exactly he's coming from. All fanbases have casual fans who aren't locked in for every pitch at the stadium. The Dodgers, nor the Cubs, are an exception to that.

But the Dodgers are also MLB's attendance king many, many times running. They set a new franchise record with more than 4 million fans in attendance in 2025, which was nearly 600,000 more than the second-place San Diego Padres. Their average attendance per game (49,357) was more than 12,000 in excess of the Cubs' final number (37,259).

Obviously, some of that has to do with the capacity of various stadiums and the age of Wrigley Field, but calling Dodgers fans "casuals" when the team routinely sells out their home ballpark (they did so about 30 times last year) is just a losing battle. Whatever PCA was hoping to accomplish with his remarks, his sentiment falls flat the moment you try to find a shred of evidence to back it up.

It's also worth pointing out that Crow-Armstrong also said this in his interview: "The f--- are you playing for if you’re not trying to play in the playoffs and win the World Series?" Admirable though his competitive spirit may be, in order for him and the Cubs to accomplish such a feat, they'll need to stop the runaway train that is the Dodgers' budding dynasty.

Did someone say something about losing battles?