wasn’t just hope that things were about to change. Within days, they did — and in some ways haven’t stopped.
We learned a year ago this week that a group led by Baltimore-born billionaire David Rubenstein was buying the Orioles from the Angelos family and, presumably, adding a meaningful catalyst — money — to what had been a deliberate but successful effort by Mike Elias and his team to rebuild the club into an on-field contender.
Related or not, Elias signaled the new era by acquiring ace Corbin Burnes later that week. Rubenstein didn’t officially take over for a few months, but all the inevitable change in the year since we learned the team’s fate has taken many forms: some fast, some not, but all at least heading in a direction that delivers on much of the promise that merely being different would ultimately lead to better.
