Above is the oddest moment of Tuesday's George Steinbrenner coverage: Jimmy Breslin talking to ESPN's Brian Kenny - a former Newsday delivery boy in Levittown.

Among other bizarre moments the two disagree over the state of New York City in the mid-1970s. "This town never has much trouble," Breslin says. "It's New York!"

Classic.

Here is the newspaper version of the Steinbrenner appreciation I wrote for Newsday.

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