I am going to assume for the most part that you are not familiar with Mario Mendoza. For the most part one would have to be a baseball aficionado to know about him.
From Wikipedia:
Mendoza was a lightly used shortstop from Chihuahua, Mexico, who played for three franchises during a nine-season Major League career. While his fielding was highly regarded, his hitting was not. His batting average was between .180 and .199 in five seasons out of nine.
For those of you who are not familiar with baseball, one’s batting average indicates how good a hitter that individual is. In general a good hitter’s batting average is above .300, while a batting average of .250-.300 is indicative of an average hitter. A batting average of <.250 is what one would see with a poor hitter, and below the so-called Mendoza line with a batting average of <.200 … is extremely bad!
From Wikipedia:
The term is also used outside of baseball to convey a similar connotation of unacceptably subpar performance:
* “The U.S. 10-year note yield declined below 2%… before moving back above the Mendoza Line… to 2.09% by early afternoon.”
* “A sub-$2,000 per theater average… is the Mendoza Line of box office numbers…”
* “Republican pollster Neil Newhouse… argues that these numbers have crossed below the political ‘Mendoza line’…”
Last week Joe Biden Awarded the Medal of Freedom to Hillary Clinton, and George Soros. Besides severely diminishing the award, in my opinion, Joe Biden’s awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom to a bunch of far liberal leftists such as Hillary Clinton and George Soros clearly puts the Presidential Medal of Freedom below the Mendoza line, perhaps forever!
Consequently this award means nothing now!
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