Cubs’ Pete Crow-Armstrong: ‘I regret my word choice’ to White Sox fan during City Series
CHICAGO — Pete Crow-Armstrong isn’t on social media much, but by Monday morning, the Chicago Cubs’ center fielder knew his interaction the day before with a White Sox fan had blown up online. Crow-Armstrong, speaking at his locker before the Cubs’ series opener against the Milwaukee Brewers, expressed regret for using vulgarities in response to the female Sox fan yelling at him during the bottom of the fifth inning in Sunday’s 9-8 loss at Rate Field. Crow-Armstrong had jumped into the right-field fence to try to haul in the hard-hit ball off Miguel Vargas’ bat.
He couldn’t make the play on a two-run, game-tying double and sat on the dirt in disbelief. As he stood up from the warning track, a Sox fan in the field-level The Patio section yelled at him, prompting Crow-Armstrong’s profanity-laced response. “I just regret my choice of words the most and who that affects in my life directly and indirectly,” Crow-Armstrong said.
“I don’t think that any of the women in my life would ever think that I would use those kind of words regularly, especially referring to them, so I’m just bummed about the word choice and that a bunch of little kids go and probably find their way to social media and see that as well. “That was strictly a heat-of-the-moment kind of thing, as corny as that sounds, it’s real. I regret my word choice for sure and I think (the Cubs) know that.
” Crow-Armstrong said he had a lot of people reaching out to him Monday about what he was captured saying in the clip posted to social media, which was recorded by someone in The Patio section. “That’s not something I pride myself on being about is calling people names like that, but I think most importantly the women in my life know that I don’t love that choice of word,” Crow-Armstrong said. “I don’t want to let that deter me from the competitiveness that I feel out on the field.
I think channeling it in a different way would probably be my next task. So, that’s something I should be aware of at all times, that there will be cameras and such on me. “But I’m not always gonna let stuff like that fly, either.
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