Accepting Lady chance during your position costs one thing. Experiencing Lady Gaga would seem to be is quite another.

The flamboyant performer amazed Friday's New York Mets-Yankees game at Yankee Stadium. She was glad in an open-collared pinstripe jersey and black bikini bottom. For her, that has to be cosidered dressinf conservatively.



She managed to enter the sanctuary from the Yankees clubhouse after a 4-0 loss and is reported to have chatted with Robinson Cano and Alex Rodriguez. The New York base said she seemed to be drunk.

The paper also said Yankees co-chairman Hank Steinbrenner had banned her from the clubhouse. The team Sunday denied any such action.

''If you listen to the stations, she's all over the place,'' Cano said. ''She's a great singer and she's doing pretty good. She's a great singer, I can tell you that.''

''Our guys know that when it's time to play, it's time to play,'' Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. ''Celebrities have been coming out to different venues forever, whether you turn on a Lakers game or celebrities used to flock to watch Michael Jordan play. Our clubhouse, from an hour before the game, is our little sanctuary.''

So Lady Gaga may coming back someday. Not after a loss, however.

''There is a time for things like that and that wasn't it,'' Yanks general manager Brian Cashman said. ''After a loss is the wrong time. Where a security detail prevents the media covering the game from doing its job, that is wrong. This has nothing to do with her. ... It has to do with a decision made upstairs to let her in and allow this to happen. She did nothing wrong. ... The problem is internal and it's been handled.''

Guess that means Lady Gaga isn't too hot to handle, after all.