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Column: MLB's playoff format is penalizing top seeds with all that
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Padres will become first MLB team to wear sponsored patch on
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How Losing Is A Profitable Game In Baseball : NPR
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Padres put profits over product with MLB's first-ever patch
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Padres have tossed aside small-market stigma to act like a model
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A $17 million annual deal by the Red Sox stokes debate on the
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Padres Make History with Motorola Jersey Patch - Ministry of Sport
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MLB Sponsor Revenue Hits $1.2B as Jersey Patch Boom Awaits
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Apple and Major League Baseball to offer “Friday Night Baseball
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San Diego Padres: See the Friars' splashy new City Connect jerseys
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