I’m well aware that all of you guys have been concerned about the lack of production here last week by the onslaught of e-mails I received asking if everything was okay (actual e-mail count = zero), but don’t worry fair readers, all is well. For the past 6 days or so, I’ve been trying to take care of a minor fender bender, pen the ultimate best man speech, enjoy meself some Thanksgiving (my favorite holiday), attend the wedding of my best friend for 25 years, and literally drown myself in Heineken & Crown Royal. Hopefully, by midday today, this well-oiled machine will be back up-and-running as usual. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Until then, I’ll leave you with a couple links…

• PhillyBurbs is in the midst of a tenth anniversary celebration (I sent them a homemade tin foil bowl as a gift), and listed their Top 10 most awesomest Philadelphia websites. We here at The Fightins dot com are honored to have made their list. Thank you, kind sirs. [PhillyBurbs]

• The Phunyun returns from their one month (unexcused) hiatus with a mutherfucking vengeance. They were the first site to get a hold of Charlie Manuel’s Christmas album aptly-named, “Christmas came two months early…” It looks like it’ll wind up being this year’s must-have Holiday CD (much like Billy Idol’s last year) featuring a myriad of special musical guests including Sir Elton John, the Vienna Boys Choir, Fox’s John Bolaris, Eryka Badu, as well as Daryl Hall and John Oates. Go there this instant, it’s truly brilliant stuff. [The Phunyun]

• Antonio Alfonseca is playing baseball again! I think! Actually, there was an article with in name in it, but it was written in Spanish. So, if any of you multi-lingual ducds out there could translate this, I’d be extremely appreciative. [Listin Diaro]

ESTRELLAS - Los lanzadores Antonio Alfonseca y Lorenzo Barcelo fueron las primeras víctimas de los recortes de las Estrellas Orientales, debido a la pobre actuación del equipo en el campeonato invernal dominicano…

And finally, although it has nothing to do with baseball, this clip of a guy reacting to the closing of a Philadelphia library is a late entry for YouTube of the year. Enjoy:

• Watrick on July 3 Game Recap: Phillies 7, Mets 2
• Lynniemac on On Carlos Carrasco and the JV Phillies
• bigmyc on July 3 Game Recap: Phillies 7, Mets 2
• Larry on For one day at least, Rodrigo Lopez deserved his own fan group
• fuck the mets on For one day at least, Rodrigo Lopez deserved his own fan group