Pete Crow-Armstrong took on a very different tone on Monday.
A day after getting into a vulgar exchange with a fan — telling her “You suck my f–king d–k bitch” — during a 9-8 loss to the White Sox, the Cubs star acknowledged he took things a bit too far.
“I just regret my choice of words the most, and who that affects in my life directly and indirectly,” Crow-Armstrong told reporters on Monday. “I don’t think that any of the women in my life would ever think that I would use those kinda of words regularly, especially referring to them. So I’m just bummed out by the word choice and that a bunch of little kids go and probably find their way to social media and see that as well.
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“I am intense on the field and at a moment like that, I think I just let it get away from me a little bit. But again, poor word choice.”
The scene unfolded in the outfield at Rate Field when the All-Star center fielder couldn’t catch a long drive at the wall.
A woman along the outfield fence let him have it.
“You suck,” she told him, flashing a thumbs-down in what was apparently a pre-planned heckle during her engagement party.
Crow-Armstrong, a former Mets draftee and top prospect, then fired off his crude retort.
“Some lady decided to start talking s–t and I felt the need to say it back,” Crow-Armstrong said after the game.
Cubs’ Pete Crow-Armstrong reacts after hitting a double against the Texas Rangers. AP
The response drew plenty of attention from the woman’s party.
“I said he sucked, and then he said words that I don’t want to repeat, you shouldn’t say to a woman,” she told the Chicago Sun Times. “And then both my brothers were up there against the fence, too.’’
Her defenders included her fiancé, clad in a blue Cubs jersey.
“He tried to calm me,’’ she said, “but then he heard what PCA said to me, so he started booing him, too.’’
Cubs center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong, center, cannot catch a two-run double hit by the Chicago White Sox’s Miguel Vargas during the fifth inning. AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh
There is no official word on MLB getting involved in the fallout from the obscene interaction, with Crow-Armstrong set to patrol center field and bat eighth for Monday night’s clash with the Brewers at Wrigley Field.
