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Wade McGilberry luckiest (and richest) MLB 2K10 player ever

by Griffin McElroy on May 5th 2010 11:00AM

When 24-year-old Wade McGilberry of Semmes, Alabama was less than 24 years old, his friends and loved ones probably gave him a hard time about his penchant for virtual baseball. "Wade," they would say, "why don't you go play real baseball? Heck, with a name like 'Wade McGilberry,' you're already well on your way to the MLB Hall of Fame." Little do they know, Wade wasn't just wasting his time. He was training.

On the very first day of the MLB 2K10 Perfect Game Competition, McGilberry managed to take down 27 in-game hitters without letting one of them place their cleated toe upon first base. For this accomplishment, McGilberry won the competition and its $1,000,000 prize, reaffirming his decision to skip all of his high school formal dances to put a few more hours into Ken Griffey, Jr.'s Slugfest. A wise decision indeed, sir.

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Tags: baseball, contest, Microsoft, million, mlb, mlb-2k10, Nintendo, perfect-game, pitching, sports, Wii, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (49)

Very perty screenie.

Ken Griffey Jr.'s Slugfest ruled

Nah, Ken Griffey Jr.'s Winning Run is where it's at. Rare made it back when they were on top of the world. Played 'till my fingers blistered.

Ken Griffey Jr.'s Slugfest was absolutely awesome.

@Wonderflex

+1 for Ken Griffey Jr's Winning Run! Loved that game!

Remember all the great fake player names...?!

@Wonderflex

And the easter egg where if you didn't pitch for a minute, the umpire would turn around, knock on the TV screen, and say "Play the game kid!"

Didn't a boatload of people do this as well? Was he the first?

Sounds like it, the contest was to be the "first" to do it and apparently he pulled it off on the first day of the contest.

Did Waffle Slayer just say butthurt? And even worse, has the comment been upvoted? What's wrong with you idiots?

This place goes deeper and deeper into the shitter every day, it's not even worth reading the comments section anymore.

Congrats to the guy with no life... Lol

You sound jealous.

That guy now has more money than you do. Sounds like you are jealous.

Aw, you butthurt?

Even if he had no life before winning a million dollars he'll definitely have one now. And one that will always be better than your shitty life.

If you say no life gets you a million dollars I wish I would've had no life. Why the hell do I go longboarding so much all spring, summer, and fall LOL

So does he get that full 1,000,000 or is it taxed by the government as part of his income? Haha

Besides high school is terrible anyways. All the best memories and moments of school-life come from College.

no life? really? the guy is a newly wed and just won a million dollars, let's see what you've done?

life or not, now he just got paid 1 meeelyon dollars for doing what he loves...good for him

Probably $600,000 after taxes, still nothing to scoff at.

yeah....shoot give me $1000 net pay for gaming and I'd be happy

bimmy: How about game-testing Superman 64? Two weeks. Locked in a window-less room. No food. No sleep. No human contact.

lol...that's not gaming, that's torture...still, I'd take it

The highest rate the government can tax you is 35% on income. He will take home approximately $650,000, and his state government will spend the other 350,000 on something school-related probably.

I remember hearing about this contest......
They made it sound hard to do.....
I wish I had won the money.....

WAIT A SECOND! He won on the very first day!?! and they didn't announce it?!? There must have been thousands of people wasting there time trying to do this, and what about the guy that one a month later. He would be walking around thinking he was a million dollars richer.

Why did they wait so long?

One of the contest rules required the player to record the game, included the booting up of the system. It probably took them a while to watch the video and to make sure it was legit.

Kudos to this guy for getting the perfect game. I went 6 perfect innings w/ Justin Verlander (Go Tigs, RIP Ernie) before losing the bid.

I imagine quite a few people bought the game just for the chance at the million, announcing it on the first day would have probably killed a lot of the buzz.

that won a month later*

Marketing, obviously. People bought it thinking they'd have a chance. Plus, they had to verify his footage as well as make sure it was the first received that was a perfect game.

awesome for that guy, he can now buy and sell me....MLB The Show still blows this game out of the water

I remember playing MLB 2K7 when I was in Iraq and I had a no hitter with Chad Billingsley, allowed a hit with two outs in the 9th inning on two strikes. Ended up with 22 Ks though. cool story bro

The preemptive 'cool story bro', granting you immunity from any snarky replies. I salute your technique sir!

Man, major kudos to that guy. I'm jealous.

What the hell, I read Joystiq through Google Reader and I just got spammed a load of TV show bullshit.

Some DNS monkey accidentally redirected Joystiq to TVSquad. It should have been fixed by now...

well, if he wasnt gettin any....he sure will now!!!!!

congrats dude!!!

He's married.

I live in Mobile, AL. Semmes is just a subdivision of our city but some consider it a seperate city. That is really cool to hear that someone in our town actually won the contest. Congrats!!

I live right down the road for this guy too. Small world.

Did it have to be on hardest difficulty? Did he get to pick teams? And what were the teams?? And how long did it take? And how practice did put in?? Inquiring minds want to know!!

The press release doesn't mention the pitcher he used. I'd like to know.

That's awesome.

I'm interested to know what teams were used in the game. Why don't they tell us what team he was and what team he faced. The photo makes you think it was Yankees and Phillies, but that could be just a stock photo they use because they were in the World Series last year. I feel like I received no information from this article.

Well good for him I say, for anybody who thinks the guy has no life, wouldn't you attempt something like that if it was a game you really loved?

if he did this on the first day that game must be really easy. Glad I play MLB the Show!

i would have like to have seen the box score

it took him 7 tries. he used the Braves and the pitcher was Kenshin Kawakami. He did it against the Mets. (saw all of this on his ESPN's First Take interview)

dude made more than this game did in sales.

Congrats! My hat's off to him.

this fellah and his wife were on howard stern the other day, they sounded like a great set of people....if not a bit scary

This couple is the sweetest christian couple who both have B.A. degrees and work hard. No two people deserve it more. They are very close friends to my daughter. Congrats!!

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