I'll have you be in love, there must be a time

I'll get a chance to go home

I'm so tired, I'm needed to hear along

But I'm just a trail of learning time

Time so hard to pay for my crime

Good morning, and welcome to episode 563

of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from Baseball Perspectus

presented by the play index at baseballreference.com

I am Ben Lindbergh of Grantland, joined by Sam Miller of Baseball Perspectus

and my Midwest tour is over, I'm back in the studio

For good? I don't know

Depends on the royals and the giants probably

So I was looking at my my route so the ESPN arranged my travel

I had no say really in what flight I took or

where those flights took me

and so the route that I ended up taking was New York to Charlotte to Kansas City

and then on the way back, Kansas City to Minneapolis to New York

So I looked at the distance from Kansas City to New York and compared it

to the distance from Minneapolis to New York

and Kansas City is 1,192 miles from New York

Minneapolis is 1,197 miles from New York

So you were five miles but that's on ground?

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