Keeping the feat in perspective, the Padres play in what is probably the league's weakest division.

Still, the Southeast is the league's weakest division.

The team finished with a 68-94 record, good enough for fourth place in the league's weakest division.

But the apparel division, which had been one of the company's weakest divisions, earned $19.1 million, up from $15.2 million.

It is, of course, too early to know if the Orioles will be the strongest team in the weakest division, but Anderson makes sense.

Washington, New Jersey, Orlando and Miami help make this the league's weakest division.

They won the American League West, regarded as the weakest division in baseball, with just 85 victories.

They are a playoff-caliber team in what is now one of the weakest divisions in football.

One year after losing 91 games and finishing sixth in the weakest division in baseball, they are World Series champions.

Still, they lead what may be the N.F.L.'s weakest division.