I read this story last night and thought it was so great I had to share it.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, 2K Sports announced a challenge regarding their (then unreleased) new baseball game, Major League Baseball 2K10. The deal was, the first person who could pitch a perfect game (that’s nine innings where nobody from the other team reaches first base) would win $1,000,000.<\/p>\n

24-year-old Wade McGilberry of Mobile, Alabama decided to take 2K Sports up on their offer. He picked up the game at midnight and then went to work. The next day he fired up his Xbox 360 and started playing the game. On his sixth try, he did it.<\/p>\n

“It took me about an hour and a half to do it,” McGilberry said.<\/p>\n

My favorite quote from the story: “Because insurance companies couldn’t possibly come up with the odds of throwing a perfect game, 2K Sports didn’t take out insurance and now will pay McGilberry a lump sum of $1 million out of its own pocket.”<\/i><\/p>\n

I’m sure they were glad to do it. I couldn’t care less about baseball or baseball games, but here I am talking about 2K Sports’ Major League Baseball 2K10. <\/p>\n

Major League Baseball 2K10.
\nMajor League Baseball 2K10.
\nMajor League Baseball 2K10. <\/p>\n

You just can’t buy advertising like that, folks. Or maybe, you can.<\/p>\n

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