Some are calling it a "public debut," and yet others simply view it as a rich guy getting good concert seats, but Alex Rodriguez's front-row hand-off of a water bottle to Madonna during her performance Wednesday night in Miami signaled something official in their long-rumored, scandal-plagued courtship.

E! reports that the couple arrived in Miami together on Monday, with their visit interrupted by a Rodriguez family gathering on Tuesday. But Wednesday was all A-Mad, hanging around town before Madonna's show that night, where the duo came out as conspicuously as possible with that age-old romantic standby known as "hydration":

As Madonna completed her second song before a sell-out crowd in Miami's Dolphin Stadium Wednesday night, New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez handed her a bottle of water.

"It was easy for him to hand it off because he was sitting in the front row," a witness tells E! News. "He was all excited watching her perform."

Well, she is his "fucking soulmate, dude," and the public culmination of all these months of divorces and secret rendezvous would ignite anyone's glee. We really have nothing but best wishes to offer the happy couple in the face of such inspiring news, though it's probably an opportune time to remind A-Rod that if/when his Boyfriend Contract arrives, read the fine print. Water-carrying duties are surely a signal of more burdensome emotional obligations to come.