White Sox Dave has built a Barstool career on being the loudest, most stubborn Sox die-hard on the roster — the guy who once got in actor John Cusack's face over his fandom credentials. So naturally, the internet's favorite pastime became trying to catch him slipping. This week, someone finally did.
According to The Yak, Dave genuinely believed he had a dinner date lined up with Pete Crow-Armstrong, the Cubs center fielder who has become a lightning rod for South Side fans this season. Instead, it was a setup from top to bottom, and he bought every second of it before finding out he'd been had.
The Yak broke the news that White Sox Dave thought he had a real dinner date with PCA before learning it was a prank.
The punchline here isn't just that he got fooled — it's that he'd insisted beforehand a prank like this could never work on him. That kind of confidence is basically an open invitation at a place like Barstool, where the crew treats a guaranteed-can't-happen-to-me claim as a challenge rather than a warning.
Barstool's flagship account piled on almost immediately, framing it as the classic setup-and-spike: the guy who talked the loudest about being unfoolable got duped anyway.
Barstool Sports recapped the moment White Sox Dave realized the PCA dinner invite was fake, after he'd claimed it would never happen to him.
Crow-Armstrong makes for a pointed choice of bait. He's already a name White Sox fans have strong feelings about this season, which is exactly why dangling his name in front of Dave worked as well as it did — it wasn't a random athlete, it was someone guaranteed to get a reaction out of the most reactive guy in the building.
Dave's been a Barstool fixture since he joined as a part-time blogger back in 2012, and his entire persona is built on Sox loyalty running hotter than good judgment. This prank fits right into that history — it's not damaging, it's just the latest reminder that the loudest fandom is usually the easiest one to exploit for a laugh.