{"id":3642,"date":"2010-06-26T19:27:06","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T02:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/?p=3642"},"modified":"2014-01-09T10:18:37","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T17:18:37","slug":"shine-on-you-crazy-couch-potato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/shine-on-you-crazy-couch-potato\/","title":{"rendered":"Shine On You Crazy Couch Potato – Now Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"

Q<\/b>uite a respectable showing for provincials – overtime. <\/p>\n

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O<\/b>ur conversations with Movement types are what you’ve read elsewhere already. No need to regurgitate except to note this week’s Scalia mocking of soccer did bolster flagging morale. There was a little more energy after that in waving off evident World Cup popularity as just typical transitory American infatuation with winning. This, too, shall pass. Plus, Scalia’s ‘Eyetalian’. <\/p>\n

Kids and young adults are voting otherwise. Don’t tell anyone. <\/a><\/p>\n

Landon Donovan’s miracle goal on Wednesday did far more than propel the United States to the World Cup’s knockout stage. It’s made America the No. 1 soccer video game market on the planet.<\/p>\n

So says Electronic Arts, whose FIFA series of console games is both the biggest-selling and highest-rated sports video game in the world. Already expecting a surge of newcomer interest thanks to the World Cup Finals, the American success has Matt Bilbey, EA Sports’ vice president of football, predicting North America will overtake the United Kingdom for sales this year.<\/p>\n

“The U.S. market was our No. 4, in the world, four years ago,” Bilbey said. “This year it will be our No. 1 market.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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