XM MLB Chat: One of these days, Hal will speak

(Mike Lupica): "One of these days, Hal Steinbrenner, the Steinbrenner who is supposed to be in charge of the Yankees these days, is going to be the one speaking for the Yankees.

Not Randy Levine, the president of the team, an underboss out of the Giuliani administration who somehow is under the impression that he is the team now, as if he is the new Pride of the Yankees because he got a new stadium built.

Right, he’s the only sports executive in the country who has ever been able to pull off something like that.

Levine seems to have no sense of proportion, whether he is sitting across from Richard Brodsky in a hearing about his new Stadium, or going after the president of MLS — a soccer league — because he doesn’t like the guy’s attitude.

As if he hasn’t gotten the memo that he still isn’t bullying people for Giuliani.

“Don Garber discussing Yankee attendance must be a joke,” is the way Levine was quoted Friday. “We draw more people in a year than his entire league does in a year. If he ever gets Major League Soccer into the same time zone as the Yankees, we might take him seriously.”