That the circus had arrived was clear from the moment the ringmaster stood surrounded by his performers for a few introductory remarks Wednesday. Cameras were rolling. Ozzie Guillen didn’t give a [bleep].

“I expect everybody to have fun. How you have fun? Win [bleep]ing games!” he told his Miami Marlins players as spring training officially began.

Coincidence: The word fun and Guillen’s favorite expletive happen to start with the same letter and share the same monosyllabic punch. If it isn’t an oxymoron to be delightfully profane, Guillen manages, his words blunt as his accent is thick.

He asks for honesty, no, demands it, and used a rather uncommon example of what he means, telling his players that if they are late for a practice or meeting because they are drunk or were with a woman the night before, he wants to know it.

“You lie to me and I find out, we have a problem,” he said.

The low profile, under–the-radar Marlins have disappeared, replaced by glamour and bombast and stars and noise, and the evidence was everywhere you looked at Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter, two hours north of the Marlin’s new ballpark.

Anticipated opener

This 20th Marlins season is the most anticipated one since the first one, with April 4 the most anticipated Opening Day since Charlie Hough’s knuckleball and South Florida hearts fluttered and danced in 1993.

Anticipation stretches beyond South Florida, though. Hiring Guillen and signing top free-agent Jose Reyes and others have given the Marlins a national presence they have never had, not even during the two World Series seasons.

Over there Wednesday were ESPN baseball analysts Tim Kurkjian and John Kruk. MLB Network cameras were roaming the place, as was Showtime, filming the team that will star in its summer reality series, “The Franchise.” Hundreds of fans craned for a glimpse, most resplendent in the team’s unmistakable new colors and logo.

The Marlins have become an “it” team, and part of that is the new park, new name and new uniforms — but only superficially.

This team intrigues mainly because a formerly cheap club started spending voraciously, assembling a roster under pressure to challenge the Phillies for NL East supremacy. And also because many of the new parts have created a potential volatility, the possibility of an explosion in the chemistry lab.

Just as the Heat risked big thinking that superstar egos could mesh and eventually harmonize, so the Marlins are gambling that this roster — led by the most refreshingly outspoken and unfiltered manager in baseball — will enjoy tranquility.

This team could come together and be brilliant, or it could come loose and be chaos. The man in charge of that is the manager. But what if the warden running the asylum turned out to be crazier than the inmates?

The only comparison to Guillen in American pro sports coaching right now is the Jets’ Rex Ryan. You get blunt with no varnish, you get loud, you get language not heard in church. All of that gets to parade around as wonderfully justified swagger, of course, but only when you are winning.

“If you’re having fun and you’re losing you look like an idiot,” as Guillen put it Wednesday. “You winning, you have great [team] chemistry. You losing, you all hate each other. Believe me, I have experienced both ways.”