# What does "meatloaf" mean in baseball slang?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-meatloaf-mean-in-baseball-slang/1017115
**Category:** The Game Room
**Tags:** baseball-mlb
**Created:** [April 16, 2025, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-meatloaf-mean-in-baseball-slang/1017115 "2025-04-16T20:37:25Z")
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### Author:  [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2025, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-meatloaf-mean-in-baseball-slang/1017115/1 "2025-04-16T20:37:25Z")
My favorite baseblogger at Bleed Cubbie Blue uses it frequently, but I can’t find it defined anywhere online. I think it might mean “to win a series”, but I’m not sure. Anyone heard this?
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### Author:  [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2025, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-meatloaf-mean-in-baseball-slang/1017115/2 "2025-04-16T20:41:48Z")
Meat Loaf song from 1977 - “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad”
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2025, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-meatloaf-mean-in-baseball-slang/1017115/3 "2025-04-16T20:44:02Z")
I’m a lifelong baseball fan, but I may not be hip to what the kids are saying these days. 😉
I’ve not heard it used in reference to baseball before (other than the Phil Rizzuto play-by-play in Meat Loaf’s “Paradise by the Dashboard Light”), but @Folly 's definition makes sense to me, and it fits with the idea of winning a series by winning two of the three games.
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### Author:  [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2025, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-meatloaf-mean-in-baseball-slang/1017115/4 "2025-04-16T21:04:15Z")
It means if you don’t commit to the game and promise to love it forever, you’ll never get to home base.
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### Author:  [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2025, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-meatloaf-mean-in-baseball-slang/1017115/5 "2025-04-16T21:47:37Z")
Let me sleep on it.
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### Author:  [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2025, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-meatloaf-mean-in-baseball-slang/1017115/6 "2025-04-16T21:50:48Z")
**I need to know right now!**
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### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2025, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-meatloaf-mean-in-baseball-slang/1017115/7 "2025-04-16T22:07:43Z")
Shouldn’t you guys be over in Café Society? 😁
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### Author:  [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2025, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-meatloaf-mean-in-baseball-slang/1017115/8 "2025-04-17T02:58:41Z")
If you’re a White Sox fan does it mean you’re praying for the end of time?
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### Author:  [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2025, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-meatloaf-mean-in-baseball-slang/1017115/9 "2025-04-17T03:04:43Z")
> [@Folly](#):
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> Meat Loaf song from 1977 - “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad”
That sounds right, but has anyone actually ever heard it used in this context?
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### Author:  [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2025, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-meatloaf-mean-in-baseball-slang/1017115/10 "2025-04-17T03:26:36Z")
No. It’s probably something specific to that blog.
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2025, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-meatloaf-mean-in-baseball-slang/1017115/11 "2025-04-17T03:29:14Z")
As I noted, I haven’t heard it before, either. Could be that that particular blogger coined the usage, or at least heard it somewhere, and likes it a lot.
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### Author:  [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2025, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-meatloaf-mean-in-baseball-slang/1017115/12 "2025-04-17T03:34:15Z")
> [@Folly](#):
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> Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad
I found this, where Bleed Cubbie Blue says it’s a Joe Maddon phrase.
> **[Were Joe Maddon and the Cubs satisfied with meatloaf this year?](https://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2018/10/11/17960434/joe-maddon-cubs-meatloaf-theo-epstein)**
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> Two out of three ain’t bad, except possibly when you’ve won the first two and can go for a sweep.