Dodgers Interview: PCA clarifies “Dodger fans don’t care” comments, but doesn’t walk them back
CAMELBACK RANCH, AZ– A day after Pete Crow-Armstrong’s Chicago magazine quote lit up Dodgers Twitter, he got another swing at explaining himself, this time on the “Foul Territory” podcast. The tone was friendlier, and he added some context about what he meant and what he didn’t mean. He also leaned into the rivalry piece, because of course he did. The clarification landed with a little more nuance, and a little more edge.
Crow-Armstrong started by appreciating the support he got from the host A. J. Pierzynski as they framed the whole thing as personality, honesty, and ballpark reality. “No, I appreciated that, actually, that cosign,” Pierzynski said.
From there, he drew a clean line between the Dodgers on the field and the stuff he says he’s seen in the stands. “I didn’t get a chance to really back that statement up with the fact that that has nothing to do with Doc. That has nothing to do with Shohei, any of the players over there. I love Mookie Betts. I look up to him like crazy. Freddy’s only ever been great to me. If anything, those are the guys that have given these fans a reason to be fans.”
He also pointed out that his own relationship with Dodger Stadium goes back to when the team was more up-and-down, and he framed it as a fanbase that changes with the era. “I grew up going to Dodgers games when they weren’t always good, when they had Mannywood pop up,” he said. “But it’s like they go in phases.”
Then he got more specific about what he says stuck with him growing up, and why his comments hit the way they did. “I remember, all fans fight and stuff, but putting the Giants fan in the coma (Brian Stow, in 2011), like that stuck with me as a kid,” Crow-Armstrong said. “Just little things, you know, and sitting in the stands, just nasty stuff goes on. And I didn’t always experience that at other ballparks.”
He circled back again to the idea that, in his mind, it is separate from the players he respects and the team he enjoys competing against. “Like I said, that has nothing to do with who’s actually on the field for them,” he said. “I love playing against them.”
And because this is still a National League rival talking, he made sure the ending stayed pointed. “I love what they’re doing right now because they’re creating a dynasty,” Crow-Armstrong said, “but I want to take them down, too.”
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