"The Marlins Get your Marlins Tickets now! are the Yankees. Jeffrey Loria is Daddy Warbucks. The franchise that didn't buy enough hot dogs one Opening Day is dropping million-dollar bills like Hansel and Gretel's bread crumbs.

Signing Ozzie Guillen, Heath Bell and Jose Reyes in recent days was surprising enough. This is a team that once lost the majors' lowest-paid pitching coach, Rick Kranitz, over a $5,000 raise, after all.

Now Loria has gone all in on Albert Pujols. Ten years. More than $200 million. And if you're with me saying how wild this is and goes against everything the Marlins have been — well, that's the point, isn't it?"