Mike Trout won’t admit what he would trade for an Eagles Super Bowl win

On a conference call on Tuesday, noted Eagles fan and Angels star Mike Trout was asked for his Super Bowl prediction. In less than two weeks the Eagles will face the Patriots after making it to the final showdown by crushing the Vikings in the NFC Championship game.

Trout’s prediction itself isn’t much of a shock: He thinks the Eagles will win. He loves the Eagles a lot (A LOT), so him predicting a Philadelphia victory might just be wishful thinking, but he wasn’t about to make any other decision about the possible outcome of the game. He’s calling a 31-24 Eagles’ win, and just to add insult to the injury of the Patriots losing, he also decided to throw in a Tom Brady interception late in the game to seal the victory for his beloved Eagles.

He might not even be at the Super Bowl in Minnesota, which is smart because honestly who the heck wants to fly to Minnesota in the middle of winter ever? Staying at home and watching it in the comfort of your own home, which is what Trout says he prefers, is a completely fine choice.

It’s also the most Mike Trout choice ever because he definitely still wants to eat the vegetable plates and Totino’s Pizza Rolls his mom makes during the big game rather than eating the mini hot dogs and fancy dip (note: “fancy” chip dip to Trout is just anything above the french onion dip that comes from a jar) that they serve in Super Bowl suites.

That wasn’t the most interesting part of the conference call, though. After his official prediction, and admitting that he might not even go to the most important game his team has played in in more than a decade, he also revealed a shocking choice to a “What if?” situation posed to him.

When asked by someone on the call whether Trout would rather see the Eagles win a Super Bowl or have the Angels — the team he plays for and represents, and that pays him — go to a World Series and lose ... he declined to answer. Dun dun dunnnnnnnnnn!

Declining to answer is definitely the right choice because just from context clues about Trout’s life we can guess that he would probably want the Eagles to win in this scenario. Very badly. Especially when the alternate involves his own team making it to the biggest stage in baseball only to not win it.

Now you might be saying “... but he actually plays for the other team! And they suck! And if they made it to the World Series that would still be really good and a vast improvement from where the team has been languishing right now! And that also means that Shohei Ohtani would go to the World Series as a member of that team! Which is fun and great!” You would be correct in all of those statements.

But, and this is a big but, for someone who loves his football team as much as Trout loves his football team, he definitely knows deep inside that he would take his favorite team winning it all over his own team making it to the mountaintop and failing. He knows this to be true, and knows he couldn’t lie on a conference call when confronted with his true desires, and so instead smartly deflected by declining to answer at all.

So if the Eagles win, and the Angels someday make it to the World Series and lose in a crushing series in which they never stood a chance, we know what deal Trout made with a higher power to ensure Philadelphia got to hold the Lombardi Trophy even just once.