Mendoza Line - Other Uses

Other Uses

The term is also used outside of baseball to describe the line dividing acceptable mediocrity from unacceptable mediocrity:

• "A sub-$2,000 per theater average... is the Mendoza Line of box office numbers..."
• "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 as a presidential candidate."
• "Republican pollster Neil Newhouse... argues that these numbers have crossed below the political 'Mendoza line'..."
• "The U.S. 10-year note yield declined below 2%... before moving back above the Mendoza Line (baseball lingo for a batting average of .200), to 2.09% by early afternoon."