Bad Logic 101

From Cliff May at The Corner:

(But for the MSM, it’s an article of faith – what else can you call it? -- that the Saddam-Zarqawi relationship does not constitute a link between Baathists and Jihadists. They’re rivals, you see? But to suggest that rivals can’t be engaged in the same business is akin to saying that the Yankees and the Red Sox can’t both be baseball teams because, after all, they play against each other.)

Using sports as an analogy for real life is pretty dangerous territory to start with, but this one is especially dumb. If you continue on with May's logic, it leads to a new strategy for the Mariners to win the World Series this year. They just need to make all the other teams unite against them so that they only have to play one team, with all the best players on it. Without having to play 29 other teams, they can just focus on one. And the fact that Barry Bonds, Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez, Mark Mulder, Scott Rolen, Sammy Sosa, Eric Gagne, and Jim Thome are all on that team is just an inconvenient fact that the MSM points out to dash the Mariners' confidence.