I've covered sports for over 20 years, and I thought I'd heard every excuse from underperforming owners. But Arte Moreno just took it to a whole new level.

The Los Angeles Angels owner actually said - and I'm not making this up - that winning isn't in the top five priorities for fans at the ballpark. Read that again. Winning. Isn't. In. The. Top. Five.

This is the same owner who wasted the prime years of Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani. Two generational talents. Arguably two of the greatest players to ever put on a uniform. And they never made the postseason together. Not once.

Mike Trout, a three-time MVP and future first-ballot Hall of Famer, has played in exactly three playoff games his entire career. Three. Shohei Ohtani, who hit and pitched at a level we've never seen before, left for the Los Angeles Dodgers without ever experiencing October baseball in Anaheim.

And now Moreno has the audacity to suggest that Angels fans don't care about winning?

"The top five things aren't winning," Moreno reportedly said, suggesting fans care more about the experience, the entertainment, the atmosphere. Sure, those things matter. But you know what matters more? Not being mathematically eliminated from playoff contention in August every single year.

This is insulting on every level. It's insulting to the fans who show up game after game, year after year, hoping this will finally be the season. It's insulting to Mike Trout, who could've demanded a trade but stayed loyal to the organization. It's insulting to every player who's ever put on an Angels uniform and actually tried to win.

The Angels haven't made the playoffs since 2014. 2014. That's over a decade of mediocrity, of wasted talent, of empty promises. And the owner's response is essentially, "Well, fans don't really care about winning anyway."