I don't get it

Here's an excerpt from the Orange County Register article about UC Irvine's men's team beating BYU in the MPSF semis:

UC Irvine knew the speakers would either play the Beatles or the soundtrack to the musical "Annie" after Thursday's men's volleyball semifinals in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation.

"Helter Skelter" or "It's the Hard-Knock Life"?

The Anteaters and their "Fab Four" [groan] — seniors Jayson Jablonsky, David Smith, Brian Thornton and Matt Webber — are loving tomorrow instead of lamenting their yesterdays with their 30-19, 28-30, 27-30, 30-27, 15-10 victory over BYU.

OK, so the "Annie" reference is for the song "Tomorrow," and if we assume Orange County Register reporter K.J.M. Singleton is following some kind of chain of logic, then the Beatles reference is "Yesterday."

That makes...no sense.

"Yesterday" is a sad song, so I'm guessing that would be playing in the speakers if UC Irvine had lost. But "Tomorrow" is a song about not worrying about how bad things are today because there's always tomorrow. And since they won the match, they wouldn't really be looking forward to tomorrow in the way the song describes.

Why try so hard to be so clever? Instead of "soundtrack to the musical 'Annie'" Singleton could have used...virtually ANY of the THOUSANDS of songs out there that are more, what's the word, "positive."

And if he wanted to stick with "Yesterday," Singleton could have gone with something like "Right Here, Right Now," couldn't he?

Am I alone in this? The whole thing just doesn't work...I don't know why I'm so annoyed...just, give me a moment.