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Padres or Chargers? Did San Diegans subsidize the wrong sports team?

Happy Election Day.

Related, several readers have asked me a ballot-box question over the past several years.

Did San Diegans pick the wrong sports team to subsidize?

I understand why you’d ask.

The Padres have yet to win a playoff series since San Diegans voted 20 years ago to fund a downtown ballpark largely with public money.

Pads ownership and its proxies never promised playoff victories and return trips to the World Series, yet did imply that a new ballpark would better the odds on the field.

Leading up to the ballpark vote, the Pads were coming off their second trip to the playoffs in three years.