…in a video game, which is like way harder.  Anyway, 2K Sports put up $1 million for the first gamer to pitch a perfect game in MLB 2K10.

Wade McGilberry of Mobile, Ala., a 24-year-old experienced gamer, bought the game at midnight on the night it came out. After debating with his wife Katy whether he should go to work or not, he decided he’d show up to work in his capacity as a 401K record keeper before he tried his hand at making $1 million.

At around 4 p.m. that day, Wade returned from work. He logged on to XBox Live, which is necessary to record the time a gamer could accomplish the feat, and set up his computer Web cam in front of his TV, a requirement for the verification of the perfect game.

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But something strange happened during the sixth game. McGilberry took the perfect game to seventh, to the eighth and closed out the ninth. It had taken him less than an hour and a half to do it, he said.

“I called my wife, who was a work, and said, ‘Honey, I’m done. I don’t need to play anymore,” McGilberry said.

McGilberry nervously submitted his tape to the folks at 2K Sports. His wife Katy thought it came so easy that some college student who didn’t have to work surely did it before her husband.

More important than the money, though, is the fact that McGilberry should be allowed to play video games whenever he wants.  Katy’s mother coming to dinner?  Tough shit, I’m playing.  Katy wants to watch American Idol?  Oh well, I’m playing.  Now get down on your knees and suck the Playstation’s dick, Katy.

[CNBC.com]