Remember, remember, the eleventh of November,
Free-agent season and... uh...

Okay, that really wasn't going anywhere.

When I decided that starting an article with a reference to V for Vendetta was a good idea, I had a reason. The reason was to make a point, and the point is the following: the following couple of weeks are going to be very memorable for every Marlins fan out there, for reasons far beyond "hey, new stadium!"

Let's start with the obvious. The Marlins today feel almost completely indistinguishable from the Marlins that we felt we knew so well earlier this year. That is, of course, great news, as we've all been trying really hard to forget this past season as it is. The news coming from every direction is the sort of thing that's unheard of to Marlins fans far and wide. We are, of course, used to giving away our good players, not being in talks to bring some of the better ones over. More importantly, we're thinking of actually spending money. Real, actual money, the kind of money that we continually complain the front office of being so stingy with.

Let's be real for a moment. If you'd told me earlier this year that the Marlins were seriously considering adding Albert Pujols, Jose Reyes and Mark Buehrle to the team, I would've probably looked at you like you were an alien from another planet. Yet here we stand today, with all three of these players visiting Miami at some point or another, potentially taking a nice little walk through the about-to-be-finished Miami Marlins stadium. And that's just the beginning.

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