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Wade McGilberry of Mobile, Alabama won $1 million for being the first person to pitch a perfect game in Major League Baseball 2K10.

According to the Associated Press, the 23-year-old plans to use the money to pay off his mortgage and start a family.

Wow.  This kid sure knows how to celebrate.  Paying off your house?  A family?  Those are the things you are supposed to get rid of when you get a million bucks.  You get a new fancier house and a new sluttier wife and then you play video games in your sauna with a diamond-studded controller!

And you don't want little kids around.  You want 18-year-old models bringing you ballpark hot dogs on a silver platter… with fancy ketchup.

At the very least, he could use the money to move out of Alabama…

news:lite reports that "an unknown filmmaker from Uruguay has been given $30m by Hollywood studio bosses – to turn his $500 YouTube video of a giant robot invasion into a movie."

Granted, the "unknown" director, Federico Alvarez, runs a post-production visual effects house, so I'm sure he has plenty of experience and "borrowed" a lot of equipment.  You could probably shoot an awesome YouTube video for $500 if you got your cousin Will Ferrell to star in it too.

Still, from $500 out-of-pocket expenses to a $1 million director's fee in-pocket is a pretty major step forward in the size of your checking account.

Someone should give the WoW freak out kids $30 million to finally, truly make The Greatest Freak Out Ever (ORIGINAL FEATURE FILM)?!  It would be like Jackass: The Movie only more fake and more crappy.