Orioles ownership could not have provided a more emphatic endorsement of failing baseball executive Mike Elias than it did in late July. Particularly considering the growing fan unrest about a terrible MLB product and amid an eight-year tenure for Elias without a playoff win and with none on the horizon. We mist be spared of self-neutering nonsense like this, spewed by Albernaz, before Tuesday’s game (we already know Elias thinks the manager doesn’t matter; Albernaz reinforcing it while supposedly being the leader of the team, just doesn’t work). But if that’s somehow off the table, then change simply must start with a real manager making real money with some real power. It simply must start with an admittance that doing it the only way Elias has will never work.