No, you can't homer off Paul Skenes. But who should take this bet?

There's a genre of clickbait social media posts all about comparisons of elite professional athletes and YMCA recreational players. A lot of the time, the underlying questions is about the gap between the worst top-level professionals and typical recreational players. Here's an example: There are people who think the gap between the NBA benchwarmers and the hotshots down at the Y isn't that big, and I'm here to tell you those people are fucking insane. The worst players in the NBA dominated college basketball or foreign professional leagues, and are among the 500 best players in the world at what they do. They would absolutely shred any recreational contest. 50 in a rec league game? There are plenty of guys in the Patriot League who could do this no sweat. This isn't even a hypothetical. Famous NBA benchwarmer Brian Scalabrine took on non-pros at 1-on-1 in an arranged challenge---including guys who had played college basketball---and wiped the floor with them. Combined score 44-6. As…