Pete Crow-Armstrong's attempt to put Dodgers fans in their place is backfiring by the minute

Pete Crow-Armstrong had to have known he was going to get booed in his first trip to Dodger Stadium since he made those comments about LA and Dodgers fans.

Back in February, he was profiled by Chicago Magazine and, while extolling the virtues of a city he was begging to give him a contact extension at the time, talked some trash on his hometown.

"[Chicago is] 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." The backlash was swift, but he doubled down just a few days later.

The Cubs won the first game of the series with some help from Crow-Armstrong, who picked up a hit and a walk and went on to score twice. It emboldened him to triple down. "Was I poking fun at Dodgers fans? Absolutely," he said. "I'm not getting at diehard fans. They obviously exist, but it's a see-me city. It's a Lakers city where people show up to sit courtside and look good. And I view it the same way here."

And then he was silent in the second game (0-for-4 with four strikeouts) in the Dodgers' 12-4 rout of the Cubs, and could only muster up a walk and a single in the finale, when Chicago got shut out.

Pete Crow-Armstrong couldn't back up his trash talk about Dodgers fans as Cubs lose series in LA

PCA's comments are hard to read as anything other than "pick me" pleas to Chicago fans amid an ice cold start. His initial comments, pre-extension, came off the exact same way. What better way to endear yourself to the fanbase of the team you're trying to make a buck off of than slander the most hated team in baseball? Low-hanging fruit, but it probably worked on a lot of Cubs fans.

Now that he's started the season batting .238 with a .612 OPS, there's some placating still to do. His extension pales in the face of even rookies Konnor Griffin or Kevin McGonigle's, but he still has to justify his six-year, $115 million deal. If he can't do that on the field, maybe he thinks he can still endear fans by punching up at a team that could not care less about him.

Crow-Armstrong thinks that he can say all of this from a place of authority, as a native Angeleno who grew up going to Dodgers games, but he clearly wasn't paying attention. Just do your job and stop talking about the Dodgers, man. Maybe you wouldn't have a 4th percentile batting run value right now if you did.

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