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Gamer Wins $1M For Pitching Virtual "Perfect Game"

A few months ago, 2K Sports announced a unique contest to promote a new game they were working on, Major League Baseball 2K10. They said whichever gamer was the first to pitch a perfect game and provide proof would win $1 million, with the contest running for two months. Reader yukk tips news that the two months have now passed, and 2K Sports has announced a winner. It turns out the prize was won on the very first day, by a player who had put less than an hour and a half of effort into it.

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  1. A 1.5 Hour baseball game by pantherace · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fastest baseball game ever, that wasn't called due to weather.

  2. $1 million for 1hour and a half of occupation by Gri3v3r · · Score: 2, Funny

    the definition of 1337.

  3. Re:baseball? by Rogerborg · · Score: 5, Funny

    Posting about reading about watching someone play a video game of baseball - I will invent a time machine and kill your father before you were conceived. It's the only way to be sure.

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  4. Re:baseball? by L4t3r4lu5 · · Score: 5, Funny

    One word.

    Cricket.

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  5. Re:baseball? by Capt+James+McCarthy · · Score: 2, Funny

    The most boring possible video game genre.

    Playing baseball - boring.
    Watching baseball - very boring.
    Playing a video game of baseball - even more boring.
    Watching someone play a video game of baseball - kill me now.

    It depends about the video of someone playing a baseball computer game. Does it have that mullet forever hair, 80's throwback Billy Mitchell in it?

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  6. Re:baseball? by ddxexex · · Score: 4, Funny

    Umm, wouldn't killing mirix's _mother_ be the only way to be sure?

  7. Re:baseball? by Imrik · · Score: 5, Funny

    Better do both to be on the safe side.

  8. Re:baseball? by anarche · · Score: 2, Funny

    One word.

      Cricket.

    Baseball.

    Proof that Americans never had an attention span.

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  9. Re:Perfect game in less than 90 minutes? by L4t3r4lu5 · · Score: 2, Funny

    There was.

    You were trying to win a million dollars.

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  10. Re:baseball? by Thanshin · · Score: 4, Funny

    And then discover he's adopted.

    See? See what the Terminator had to go throug?

  11. Re:Did anyone else submit a no hitter? by getSalled · · Score: 2, Funny
    ... or fielder errors or dropped third strikes with the runner reaching first or catcher interference.

    No one gets to first base. Surprised more Slashdotters didn't submit entries...

    (ducks and cover)

  12. Re:baseball? by boot1973 · · Score: 3, Funny
    You have missed the point of both cricket and baseball.. They are both excuses to sit outside and drink.. only with cricket you can legitimately do that for 5 days in a row!

    Americans have a lot to learn about sitting about and drinking.

    With cricket you also get the excuse to visit exotic countries and then sit about and drink for 5 days in a row. Clearly cricket is by far a superior game.