{"id":3509,"date":"2026-06-01T10:25:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T09:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.drinkfood.info\/?p=3509"},"modified":"2026-06-01T10:25:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T09:25:03","slug":"%f0%9f%9a%a8-report-st-louis-turns-up-the-heat-as-pete-crow-armstrong-enters-the-cubs-long-line-of-cardinals-villains-the-cardinals-taking-the-series-only-made-the-rivalry-feel-sharper-lo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.drinkfood.info\/?p=3509","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udea8 REPORT: ST. LOUIS TURNS UP THE HEAT AS PETE CROW-ARMSTRONG ENTERS THE CUBS\u2019 LONG LINE OF CARDINALS VILLAINS. The Cardinals taking the series only made the rivalry feel sharper, louder, and more personal inside one of baseball\u2019s most emotional battlegrounds. For Chicago, this wasn\u2019t just another road loss \u2014 it was another chapter in a rivalry where every swing can turn a player into public enemy No. 1. \ud83d\udc47\ud83d\udc47\ud83d\udc47"},"content":{"rendered":"
ST. LOUIS \u2014 There\u2019s always room for a good Chicago Cubs villain in their rivalry with the St. Louis Cardinals, from Dusty Baker to Carlos Zambrano to Kris Bryant to Pete Crow-Armstrong, the latest to throw his hat into the ring.<\/p>\n
For reasons that can\u2019t be fully explained, St. Louis fans have a strong dislike for Crow-Armstrong that goes above and beyond their normal dislike of Cubs players.<\/p>\n
This weekend\u2019s three-game series at Busch Stadium, which ended Sunday night with a 5-1 Cardinals win, gave them a chance to show him exactly how they feel. The general consensus was that Crow-Armstrong was \u201coverrated,\u201d an unoriginal insult they repeatedly chanted when he stepped up to the plate in the eighth inning on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Crow-Arnstrong answered back in epic fashion with a 444-foot home run into the mocking group of fans in a section of the right-field bleachers recently dubbed the \u201cTarps Off\u201d zone. He then celebrated with a bat flip and some histrionics around the bases to let them know he was also thinking of them.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s hard to embarrass a full group of people,\u201d manager Craig Counsell said of Crow-Armstrong\u2019s moment.<\/p>\n
But he did, including the young man who caught the ball and couldn\u2019t manage to throw it back on the field from about 15 feet away.<\/p>\n
Pete Crow-Armstrong answers St. Louis Cardinals fans\u2019 taunts with a night to remember in Chicago Cubs\u2019 6-1 win<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Crow-Armstrong will no doubt be a target every time he comes to St. Louis the rest of his career, a badge of honor to Cubs fans.<\/p>\n
I asked Anthony Rizzo, who worked his first Cubs game Sunday as an on-field analyst for NBC\u2019s \u201cSunday Night Baseball,\u201d if there was any comparison from his era.<\/p>\n
\u201cProbably Kris Bryant,\u201d he said. \u201cBut just because he said St. Louis was boring.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bryant was the antithesis of Crow-Armstrong. He never executed a bat flip. He didn\u2019t curse. And he never showboated after hitting a home run. Bryant made the off-the-cuff remark about St. Louis to Ryan Dempster during the Cubs Convention in 2019, and was booed every time he stepped to the plate at Busch Stadium on June 1, 2019, in his first game there after the remark.<\/p>\n
Even his teammates and manager Joe Maddon jokingly booed Bryant in the dugout to add to the festivities.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s never going to be done,\u201d Bryant admitted afterward. \u201cI get that. But there are only so many times I can answer questions on it. So hammer away. Whaddya got?\u201d<\/p>\nChicago Cubs’ Kris Bryant reacts after striking out during the first inning of a baseball game against the St. Louis Cardinals, Saturday, June 1, 2019, in St. Louis. (AP Photo\/L.G. Patterson)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Crow-Armstrong said Saturday, \u201cit\u2019s absolutely easy to feed off\u201d the fan abuse, though he didn\u2019t admit to taunting the \u201cTarps Off\u201d crowd back by pointing toward the section on his way around the bases and waving his hand in the air like he was waving a T-shirt, as the fans did.<\/p>\n
Rizzo said it was a perfect response. When opportunity presented itself, Crow-Armstrong delivered.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe hit a bomb while they were chanting \u2018overrated,\u2019 so it was just perfect timing,\u201d Rizzo said. \u201cI think whenever a player gives fans ammunition, it\u2019s fun for the fans. The player is going to have to wear it for the rest of his time here. He\u2019s probably going to fail more than he succeeds, because that\u2019s just the way the game is, but it\u2019s all in good fun.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs long as he keeps it all in good fun. I think it\u2019s really good for the fan bases.\u201d<\/p>\n
Being the target of collective rage is not really such a bad thing in sports. Dennis Rodman made a good living off it, as have many other athletes.<\/p>\n
Cubs third baseman Alex Bregman, who has been booed all over baseball for being a part of the sign-stealing Houston Astros team that won a World Series, can vouch for that. Like Bryant, he\u2019s not a player who calls attention to himself, but was handed the role of villain like several other Astros stars, including Jose Altuve and Carlos Correa.<\/p>\n
Bregman was booed every at-bat when the Cubs played in Texas last month.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s fun,\u201d Bregman said Sunday. \u201cIt kind of puts you in that mode.\u201d<\/p>\n
What mode is that?<\/p>\n
\u201cGo mode,\u201d he said. \u201cLet\u2019s go.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bregman said he\u2019s delivered in similar moments \u201cprobably about 50 times\u201d in his career.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s what the game is about,\u201d he said. \u2018It makes the games fun. It\u2019s a good rivalry.\u201d<\/p>\nChicago Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo is hit by a pitch during the fourth inning against the St. Louis Cardinals on Friday, Sept. 18, 2015, at Wrigley Field in Chicago. (Anthony Souffle\/Chicago Tribune)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
The \u201cTarps Off\u201d brigade chanted \u201ccheater\u201d Sunday as Bregman batted in the sixth. He cranked a home run to left, his fifth of the season, to cut the Cubs\u2019 deficit to 5-1. But that was the only scoring for the Cubs, who went 0-for-7 with runners in scoring position to finish the road trip 3-4.<\/p>\n
The Cubs ended May with a 13-15 record, despite starting 8-0, and have not won a series since sweeping Cincinnati on May 4-7, going 0-6-1.<\/p>\n
Jordan Wicks allowed three runs in two innings in what Counsell said afterward was a scheduled bullpen day, and the Cardinals never had to sweat after leading 5-0 after three innings. Matthew Boyd threw four innings for Triple-A Iowa on Sunday and possibly could return next weekend from his meniscus surgery, though Counsell declined to reveal the plan until they see Boyd in Chicago.<\/p>\n
Crow-Armstrong was 1-for-4 on a quiet night, batting second behind Nico Hoerner. The revenge of Crow-Armstrong on Saturday brought to mind some other recent villains in the Cubs-Cards rivalry, like Zambrano, who seemed to lose his control when Jim Edmonds batted and was hated in St. Louis. Rizzo insisted he never felt like a villain in St. Louis and was mostly treated with respect.<\/p>\n
But he was part of some famous moments. It was back in 2015 that Cardinals pitcher Matt Belisle plunked Rizzo in a game in an apparent retaliatory move that sent manager Joe Maddon into orbit.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have no history with the Cardinals except I used to love them growing up,\u201d Maddon ranted after the game. \u201cThat really showed me a lot today in a negative way. I don\u2019t know who put out the hit. I don\u2019t know if Tony Soprano is in the dugout. I didn\u2019t see him in there. But we\u2019re not going to put up with it, from them or anybody else.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tony Soprano, in this instance, was Cardinals manager Mike Matheny, a disciple of Tony La Russa. No one helped fuel the rivalry more than La Russa and Cubs manager Dusty Baker, who once traded profanities from opposite dugouts in a 2003 game at Wrigley Field after Baker accused pitcher Matt Morris of throwing at Cubs hitters.<\/p>\nSt. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa and Chicago Cubs manager Dusty Baker meet with umpires prior to the start of game on Friday, May 9, 2003, at Wrigley Field in Chicago. (Bonnie Trafelet\/Chicago Tribune)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u201cReally, if he thinks (the fight) has been on so far, he\u2019s got a whole decade full of us coming,\u201d Baker said that day. \u201cThis is just the beginning. They\u2019ve been beating up on us for a long time, from my understanding, so the best thing for him to do is just leave us alone. Just play your game and be quiet.\u201d<\/p>\n
Baker became an instant villain in St. Louis, but was so cool and confident he didn\u2019t care what anyone in the ballpark thought of him.<\/p>\n
Crow-Armstrong has a long career ahead of him and is unlikely to change his demeanor whenever he plays in Busch Stadium, or elsewhere for that matter.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think Pete is just being himself,\u201d Counsell said. \u201cThis is just who he is. You\u2019ve got to be yourself as a player, and Pete is. Some people need drama in their life. I\u2019m not saying Pete does \u2026 But Pete likes the emotional part of the game, and it\u2019s good for him.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd he has to show it, too. He has to let it out. And it\u2019s not always good, but it\u2019s him being himself and that\u2019s the most important thing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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