{"id":5913,"date":"2010-05-07T10:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T08:39:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"zomg-guy-wins-1-million-playing-mlb-2k10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/5913-zomg-guy-wins-1-million-playing-mlb-2k10","title":{"rendered":"ZOMG: Guy wins $1 million playing MLB 2K10"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in January, 2K Sports announced a competition that nobody had much chance of actually winning – pitch a perfect game in Major League Baseball 2K10, and bank $1 million. Basically, that means playing nine innings without a single batsman making it to base. It’s happened only 18 times in the entire history of Major League Baseball out in the real world (that’s going back to pre-1900, or the late Mesozoic), which works out to around once every 11 000 games. So, not often.<\/p>\n

Anyway, 24-year old Wade McGilberry of somewhere, America managed to pull it off on the very first day of the competition in March, then waited around until a couple of days ago when it finally finished up to cash it in. <\/p>\n

In an interview with G4 TV<\/a>, the lucky bastard says it didn’t even take any effort. “I did it as soon as I got home from work that day. I put it in immediately, and started playing it. It took me several tries, and then on the seventh try, is when I actually did it. Overall, it took me about an hour and a half to do it. It was crazy, because I was thinking, ‘That was too easy.’”<\/p>\n

So who said you’d get nowhere playing them pointless video games then, huh? Not that he’s planning on spending it all on hookers and blow like any normal person, of course. “I think we’re going to pay our mortgage off,” he says. “We don’t really have any big plans. We always talked about starting a family, and I think this will give us the financial ability to support children.” Gross.<\/p>\n

Discuss $1million MLB 2K10 winner<\/a> in the forums<\/div>\n

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The real cash is in virtual sports these days, apparently<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}