21.   One of the fastest ways for an athlete to get in hot water is by blasting the hometown fans.

22.   Oxford native Angie Trostel also came through for the hometown fans, finishing third.

23.   Really it was about selling tickets by drawing hometown fans.

24.   Rudy Galindo, performing before hometown fans in what might have been his last nationals, skated magnificently and grabbed the title.

25.   So the hometown fans are making the most of it.

26.   Some will be stunned when the hometown fans turn on them the first time a mistake is made.

27.   Taunted by the hometown fans who once embraced him.

28.   The downside is that hometown fans lose touch with their national stars, who are elsewhere during the regular season.

29.   The Pirates even won that night, a nice surprise for the hometown fans, and the newly converted, too.

30.   Things were so good along FleetStreet Sunday night, in fact, that the hometown fans booed the referees more than they booed the home team.