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Listening to the MLL announcers talk about winning with sportsmanship and class while scoring 20+ goals 4 times and scoring their 19th goal with under 30 seconds had me shaking my head. Total BS. Joe's ego is just out of control and those parents on his team who put up with it and his actions are just as bad.

say goodnight crabs. gonna be a long day. 9-2 already. you can't play with long island.

Congratulations on the win but remember you are but one team on Long Island-a great one but don't ruin it by being a jerk. As a whole, Long Island does not dominant this age group. Crush certainly does and should be proud of that but we all know that. Just stop the Long Island nonsense as you just become a stereotypical NYer and set up your fellow LI teams up.

Congrats to Crush. Long Island team with Long Island kids showing the country how much further they have to go to compete.

Congratulations CRUSH! Really proud of those boys. Just as an aside note, I do feel badly for the true 2020 Crabs that ended up getting the short end of the stick, because older kids chose to play down and were encouraged to do so by their coach and parents at Beach Lax. I think this game would have been a lot less stressful if there was not a score to settle after the Crabs coach allowed his eighth graders to join his team and bench some of his 7th graders. If you play the game with honor, play with your rostered kids that made the team for this year, then this game would have been a lot more fun for all. It would have still been competitive, as they are a good team, but the Crabs coach set his team up for a beating. The 2020 Crabs played great and should be proud. The Crabs coach, hopefully feels the bite of karma. Congrats to the Crabs team on a good game!

you make is sound like its over, its actually only just begun. Just wait until the recruiting tournaments when all best are off about age.

Crab parent here. No excuses. There were no players missing that made the age cutoff for u13. We were just soundly beaten. Good job to all . See you next Summer.

I really cannot believe that 91 didn't play everyone today. The game wasn't close. I don't get it.

Where was the Express in all this? Have they dropped off the face of the earth in this age group? Not long ago they used to dominate this age. Even their older teams are a lot less competitive than they used to be. What's going on there?

Congratulations CRUSH! Really proud of those boys. Just as an aside note, I do feel badly for the true 2020 Crabs that ended up getting the short end of the stick, because older kids chose to play down and were encouraged to do so by their coach and parents at Beach Lax. I think this game would have been a lot less stressful if there was not a score to settle after the Crabs coach allowed his eighth graders to join his team and bench some of his 7th graders. If you play the game with honor, play with your rostered kids that made the team for this year, then this game would have been a lot more fun for all. It would have still been competitive, as they are a good team, but the Crabs coach set his team up for a beating. The 2020 Crabs played great and should be proud. The Crabs coach, hopefully feels the bite of karma. Congrats to the Crabs team on a good game!

Just as bad as the Crabs kids and parents that high five and celebrate after winning a game against kids 1-2 years their junior? Please...Crabs celebrate when they cheat and then expect other teams to show restraint when they get to play them with all on age players? Double standard. No fan of Crush but Crabs had it coming and 91 played well and with skill. Would Crabs preferred them passing the ball around or playing offense as defense? That we would be more humiliating on television.

Wait. There are some kids on the team that didn't even see the field? That is ridiculous. They won the game convincingly. Everyone on that that should have at least played a full quarter, particularly because it wouldn't have affected the outcome. All of those parents paid good money and should have had a good experience playing time wise for their kids.

I saw Spallina played his kid the entire game, it seemed, so that is also ridiculous. But if there were kids who were on the bench the entire time, that is indefensible.

Can anyone confirm this? I hope this isn't true.

You keep harping on how crabs played the last time with holdbacks. Acting like 91 is innocent in all this. 91 has a player that has played with their 2023 team!. So stop acting all innocent. Please dont tell me thats his grade excuse. Hes 2 years older age wise

I watched the game and I know for a fact one player only was in for one single face off, he played the wing. The Faceoff kid won the face off, ran down and scored and the little wing player came right off never to go in again. Another little player went into the same for the last minute of the game on attack. I am almost certain there were others that barely played. I just cannot imagine the mentality behind it

You keep harping on how crabs played the last time with holdbacks. Acting like 91 is innocent in all this. 91 has a player that has played with their 2023 team!. So stop acting all innocent. Please dont tell me thats his grade excuse. Hes 2 years older age wise

I think they should try to score 50 today on national TV. It would be awesome and would show everyone out there what can happen if you are driven and decide to be the best. Good for them!!!! Go Crush!

I watched the game and I know for a fact one player only was in for one single face off, he played the wing. The Faceoff kid won the face off, ran down and scored and the little wing player came right off never to go in again. Another little player went into the same for the last minute of the game on attack. I am almost certain there were others that barely played. I just cannot imagine the mentality behind it

Congratulations on the win but remember you are but one team on Long Island-a great one but don't ruin it by being a jerk. As a whole, Long Island does not dominant this age group. Crush certainly does and should be proud of that but we all know that. Just stop the Long Island nonsense as you just become a stereotypical NYer and set up your fellow LI teams up.

That is horrible. Spallina is a scumbag.

I am pretty sure (with about 1:30 left in the game) he came to the bench and asking if anyone didn't play, because one little boy raised his hand, that is when he went in on attack

right.......anyway go chew some tobacco and drink some moonshine.....hurry up before 9 am Maryland hillbilly

go hit the tan salon, and gel up your hair some more! the situation is waiting for you in LBI with some red bull and vodka's...Guido!

Clown statement.......and I was rooting for 91 yesterday. try to score 50 goals makes u the best? I think if u beat a team by ten maybe twelve goals you can still prove your dominance while taking your foot off the gas late in the game with a big lead. you sucked in youth sports as a kid I'm sure. SUCKED

That shows a guy who is not there for the kids (or more accurately, he is there for HIS kid and his kid only). It's not hard to figure out playing time, especially when Team 91 was comfortably in control for most of the game. This is not a tournament 10 minutes from their practice field. All of those parents paid a lot of money to fly out to CO and to give a kid only 1 minute when the team is playing on national TV?

Team 91 parents - how can you defend this?

I watched the game and I know for a fact one player only was in for one single face off, he played the wing. The Faceoff kid won the face off, ran down and scored and the little wing player came right off never to go in again. Another little player went into the same for the last minute of the game on attack. I am almost certain there were others that barely played. I just cannot imagine the mentality behind it

They were at Legacy Invitational. Not every team was invited, they tried to spread out the teams across the nation. Express 2020 Team 1 is a very good team.

Here's the plain truth. In any team (college, HS or club) there are only 15-17 real players. The rest are there to support the school tuition or in this case club fees. What's not so obvious and very hush hush is that the very best players are enticed and incentivised (quietly of course) to join the team for less than the full retail price and sometimes even for free. The other half of the team are the suckers that are drawn in by the false prestige of being included but the truth is they are selected for their checkbooks only with no intention of receiving field time during the toughest and most important games such as yesterday. Instead, the money subsidizers who pay full retail price are placated with playing time during the easiest and least visible games and are lulled into a false sense of belonging and inclusion. Those are the realities of elite and not even elite club, private school and college teams.

All over Twitter and various blogs this morning, Spallina is being hailed a champion of the potential of youth lax. His 91 empire will now go into orbit and along with it his financial fortune. You could not have scripted it better with yesterday's win on national TV which has layed the foundation for a money printing club juggernaught. Express is toast now. If I were Jamie Munro I'd buy 91 before it's too late.

All over Twitter and various blogs this morning, Spallina is being hailed a champion of the potential of youth lax. His 91 empire will now go into orbit and along with it his financial fortune. You could not have scripted it better with yesterday's win on national TV which has layed the foundation for a money printing club juggernaught. Express is toast now. If I were Jamie Munro I'd buy 91 before it's too late.

All over Twitter and various blogs this morning, Spallina is being hailed a champion of the potential of youth lax. His 91 empire will now go into orbit and along with it his financial fortune. You could not have scripted it better with yesterday's win on national TV which has layed the foundation for a money printing club juggernaught. Express is toast now. If I were Jamie Munro I'd buy 91 before it's too late.