Indians players disagree with Kyrie Irving's flat-earth theory

The short walk from Progressive Field in Cleveland to Quicken Loans Arena is a level couple hundred feet, but that doesn't mean the world is equally flat.

Cleveland Cavaliers All-Star guard Kyrie Irving created quite a stir this weekend by proclaiming he believes Earth is flat, which led to a bit of confusion from the neighboring Cleveland Indians when they were asked their opinions.

"Why did (Irving) say that?" Indians shortstop Francisco Lindor asked Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports before acknowledging that Earth is round.

"The world is round," second baseman Jason Kipnis told Passan.

Kipnis added, "I love Kyrie. I respect him. He's a good dude. I've met him. Ask him, if he wants to get somewhere and he goes on a plane and it goes to the right and another plane goes to the left and they both can get to the same location, how that can happen if it's flat?"

Irving initially reaffirmed he was serious when asked again by reporters during All-Star weekend if he believes the Earth is flat before later indicating he might have been joking.

"What I've been taught is that the earth is round," Irving said. "But if you really think about it from a landscape of the way we travel, the way we move and the fact that, can you really think of us rotating around the sun and all planets aligned, rotating in specific dates, being perpendicular with what's going on with these planets ... there is no concrete information except for the information that they're giving us."