If anything good came out of Kyrie Irving’s recent revelation that he is actually a grown-ass man who thinks the earth is flat, it’s that we have confirmation that none of his cross-sport Cleveland athletes agree with his idiocy.
Yahoo! Sports’ Jeff Passan recently tackled the hard-hitting issue, asking Jason Kipnis, Francisco Lindor, Dan Otero, Austin Jackson, and Carlos Carrasco if they understood basic first-grade science. Luckily, they all did. All five seemed professional in their responses to Jeff’s questions, though Carrasco had a worrying pause before confirming something my five-year-old son would answer correctly.
Irving was not talking about slight imperfections or bumps in the surface of the earth. It was, simply, is the earth round or flat? He said flat. When asked the same question, Indians pitcher Carlos Carrasco paused.
Carlos.
For 10 seconds, he was silent. It was difficult to tell whether he was considering his answer or wanted it to be: What kind of stupid question is that, you dimwit?
CARLOS.
“The way you look at it right now if you’re walking around, it’s flat,” Carrasco said.
CARLOS STOP
“But it’s round.”
Ok, phwew.
If you have made it this far into the post and don’t know the context: Kyrie Irving apparently wasted a year at Duke for nothing. The 24-year-old revealed earlier this week that he actually, really, truly believes the earth is flat.
"I think people should do their own research, man," Irving told ESPN. "Hopefully they'll either back my belief or they'll throw it in the water. But I think it's interesting for people to find out on their own.”
I have a firm belief that players should have opinions on things and be allowed to express them, even if I personally deeply disagree with them.
But this is not a belief. This is not a theory. This is not being woke. This is being flat-out wrong about something you yourself can test; something that proves you are trying everything you can to be intellectual but you’re being exactly the opposite.
Or he’s the world’s greatest troll and we should all bow at his feet, I don’t know. If he’s just havin’ a goof at our expense, that’s perfectly fine with me. Like that Terry Bradshaw Super Bowl commercial, I’m just excited for the other foot to drop so we can all laugh this off and buy some Tide® detergent.
If he’s just trying to “start a conversation” or “get people thinking,” there are a lot better ways that spouting anti-science garbage like the earth is flat. Thankfully the Indians don’t seem to buying into his methods, either.