It's been a nutty week here. No, not at the Daily News -- it's always nutty there -- but here in the city. Warm weather has settled in like an old friend coming to visit, and murders seem to occur every few hours. With so much to cover and so little time, I'm going to topic jump here.

Urbina a Phillie (thug) at heart. Remember a couple of summers ago when the Phillies were trying to make a serious run at second place? (What? They do that every summer? Hmm.) At the time, relief pitching was believed to have been an issue (the more things change...), so the Phils went out and traded for Ugueth Urbina, a former bullpen ace. Urbina was so-so for a few months and wasn't worth another contract. So, he quietly faded away .... and tried to hack up a bunch of hired hands!

"Former Major League Baseball pitcher Ugueth Urbina found out Wednesday that he is being sentenced to 14 years in prison for being found guilty of attempted murder in his homeland of Venezuela.

The former reliever claimed that he was sleeping at the time of the alleged attack."

Chitwood is mad as hell, and he's not going to take it anymore. Few top cops are as animated and emotional as Upper Darby's Michael Chitwood Sr. I talked to him yesterday about a sad UD case: a hard-working 17-year-old honor student was paralyzed after he was shot in the spine running away from a sadistic family of robbers.

"The victim is an excellent student, not on our radar at all," said Chitwood, who famously paraded those "Not in my town, scumbag!" t-shirts around town not too long ago. "He' s good kid who's a pillar of our community, the future of our society, and now what? These punks destroyed his life!"

Warm weather makes people get all entrepreneurial. Jeff Deeney checks in with another installment of the always interesting "Today I saw...." People get crazy when the first of the month rolls around and their checks come in. When warm weather arrives at the same time as the checks, the streets come alive, my friends.

"There was money in every pocket and the public schools were on a half day; the streets teemed with parents and children walking hand in hand headed to the Avenue for a new set of kicks, to restock prepaid cell phones with minutes or to fill shopping bags with groceries. The hustlers pound the pavement hard around the first. Some carry buckets and rags, setting up ad hoc detail shops on the corners. Some set up sidewalk stands and hawk their oils, knock-off handbags, sunglasses and bootleg DVDs."

The next great city body bag. The People Paper's Julie Shaw ran around town all day yesterday to bring us this sad story of Michael White, a popular West Oak Lane barber who became the city's 96th murder victim of the year.

White's brother, Derek Perkins, 23, cried aloud after he arrived at the taped-off crime scene outside his brother's barbershop, where he was supported by many of White's friends, including former Philadelphia Eagle Bruce Perry.

"He never hurt nobody," Perkins said after police left the scene. "He always gave his heart."