By day’s end a settlement was reached. For their participation each Met would be paid $1,000 and given a VCR and a copy of the videotape Dick Clark’s Best of Bandstand(supplied by Vestron, the company that financed the project). Palmer breathed a deep sigh of relief. But over the course of the next five days, he received one ludicrous request after another. The self-importance of professional athletes is generally off the charts, but this was insane. The Mets wanted everything. E-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g. Upon asking a star to, say, film a sequence of mock home run swings, Palmer was met with “Oh, he
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