It’s time for another cleanup on Aisle 12.

New Seahawks owner Vinod Khosla, who previously complained about the media focusing on his claim at his first press conference in August that he was and is a Steelers fan (and still watches all of their games), now takes issue with the reasonable reaction to on-the-record quotes he recently gave to Axios.

“To all @Seahawks fans and @12s,” Khosla said on Twitter, “we have no plans to move the team, have never discussed it, haven’t even thought about it. End of story. I’ve said repeatedly we have no plans to change anything. Feel sad for the reporters looking for views and clicks who distort my answer out of context and sent an entire city into a spiral for no reason.”

Where’s the distortion? He gave a quote. The quote was noticed, given its obvious implication. And the quote was repeated. That’s how this entire business works.

Here’s the question that Khosla was asked by Axios: “You’ve talked about being a steward of the Seahawks and preserving what Paul Allen built. But I don’t think you’ve formally committed to keeping the team in Seattle long-term. Will you make that commitment?”

Here’s his response: “I will never say never. Will this team be in Seattle 500 years from now? But I have no current plans to change anything about the team, including the coach, president, operation or Lumen Field. It all functions well.”

Khosla chose the words he uttered. He could have said, “The team will never move as long as I own it.”

He’s smart enough to know that would have harmed his leverage to get as much free money as possible when it’s time to renovate or to replace Lumen Field. And that’s fine. Still, he can’t have it both ways.

But it’s not his fault for saying it. It’s our fault for saying that he said it.

On top of all of that, he had yet another chance to say, “The team will never move as long as I own it.” Instead, he said in his tweet, “We have no plans to move the team.”

Plans change, all the time. Hiding behind the phrase “no plans” creates flexibility to devise a different plan later.

Frankly, the city was “sent into a spiral” because Khosla missed the layup. And then went back to the line, dribbled to the hoop, and missed it again.

Khosla also told Axios that “he know[s] very little about running a team.”

We’ll add this, with all due deference and respect: And it shows.