(loud thud) (letters shattering) announcer: it's the elwood city grebes three, the crown city kings zerogame. muffy, get up! to see what? nothing's happening. do you know how rare a perfect game is? that means not a single batter reaches base. exactly. (yawns) how boring. strike one! there's only been 17 of them in over a century of major-league baseball. it's a once-in-a-lifetime event! buster: strike two! (crowd cheering wildly) come on, lefty. just one more strike to go! (crowd groans) no! finally, something happened! i can't believe it. we were this close! arthur: look on the bright side. at least the grebes won. how often does that happen? buster: i had the best hot dog ever. (burps) it still tastes good. and i got this grebes jersey for half off. yep, it was a great day. don't you guys get it? that game could have been perfect. what went wrong? why did lefty give up that hit? why?! (cracking) (all gasp) ratburn: behold! the bustling "northern capital," better known as beijing. and it was defended by the great wall of china. arthur: that's istanbul, right? correct, arthur. and final

(loud thud) (letters shattering) announcer: it's the elwood city grebes three, the crown city kings zerogame. muffy, get up! to see what? nothing's happening. do you know how rare a perfect game is? that means not a single batter reaches base. exactly. (yawns) how boring. strike one! there's only been 17 of them in over a century of major-league baseball. it's a once-in-a-lifetime event! buster: strike two! (crowd cheering wildly) come on, lefty. just one more strike to go! (crowd groans) no! finally, something happened! i can't believe it. we were this close! arthur: look on the bright side. at least the grebes won. how often does that happen? buster: i had the best hot dog ever. (burps) it still tastes good. and i got this grebes jersey for half off.

walked in a sprawling garden compound next to the forbidden city but in the end, he was left sulking in the corner, his dreams of being crowned king of the summit crushed by an axis, if you will, of russia, china and iran. mr. cool unable to find a clique to run with, it seems. the president seemed open to working with mr. obama. he offered up a chinese proverb that a large body of water quote, begins with many drops of water. that is profound and very confucious-like but the president's faux pas are overwhelming his small ball of achievements in beijing such as coming up with longer expiration dates for some visas and china's reduction of some tariffs on high tech exports, but only some. chinese social media is also endlessly spooling footage of president obama chewing gum while at the summit, prompting disgusted chinese critics to brand our president as an idler. it's not just chinese outlets focusing on the president's foibles. the "new york times" reporting on the traditional summit sartorial silliness, saying the president's purple satin shirt he wore earlier this week was, in their judgment, goofy and the styling in their wo