Comparison with baseball as an argument that poker is a game of skill?

[UpstateMatt]

These analogies - baseball, scrabble - are not valid. You can't take an average person, toss him into a baseball game or scrabble game with experts, and expect him to have any chance to compete, particularly if he makes stupid decisions. In poker, he can.

It doesn't matter that inferior players can beat better players at baseball or scrabble. In poker, the luck is strong enough that utter novices can beat the world's experts in the short term. That's not true in scrabble, and it's definitely not true in baseball.