Mendoza line

English Etymology After shortstop Mario Mendoza, whose lifetime batting average is taken to define the threshold of minimally competent hitting. Noun ? en baseball A .200 batting average, which is around the minimum batting average a player with strong defensive skills can have and still stay in the major leagues. Named for Mario Mendoza. en His recent slump has put him perilously close to the Mendoza line; he may be headed to AAA soon. The line dividing acceptable mediocrity from unacceptable mediocrity I don’t think you could find any other figure in politics who has run this far below the Mendoza line and still managed to get taken seriously. Andrew Sullivan http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/08/mitt-romney-is-bad-at-politics-1-1.html Mitt Romney is bad at politics The Daily Beast 1 September 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20120113230840/http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/08/mitt-romney-is-bad-at-politics-1-1.html 13 January 2012 A sub-$2,000 per theater average... is the Mendoza Line of box office numbers.C.S.Strowbridge, Even Horror Films Can't Survive the October of Terrors, The Numbers Republican pollster Neil Newhouse... argues that these numbers have crossed below the political "Mendoza line"...Mark Murray, Republicans abandoning Bush. MSNBC References en eponyms