Michael Hanna

I tweet about sports and have occasional scoops on @UCLABTeam. Texas BBQ enthusiast. Playoff hater.

[Michael Hanna @MHtweets18]

To all of you who have found me because of this very benign tweet that somehow went viral, 1) I think all playoff systems are stupid and 2) I would have said this if it were USC, Cal, LSU, or anyone else and it has nothing to do with UCLA. I am VERY consistent on hating playoffs.

[Michael Hanna @MHtweets18]

Out of all the (stupid) playoff systems around, NCAA baseball is *by far* the dumbest.

[Michael Hanna @MHtweets18]

@TheFergusonWay Start shopping in France. PL market is insanely inflated.

[Michael Hanna @MHtweets18]

This is genuinely the dumbest question I've seen in a very long time.

[Dan Patrick Show @dpshow]

Would you rather be...

[Michael Hanna @MHtweets18]

I want to go a Scotland game and be adopted by a group in the Tartan Army. My liver would fail, but it would be a glorious way to go.

[Callum Bell @Calbell0]

The Tartan Army boat party is in full voice and full pints at 11am in Boston Harbour 😂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🚢

#Scotland #WorldCup #FWC26 #TartanArmy

[🇺🇸 @starsnstripesfc]

Boomers and Europeans will try to tell you this country doesn’t care about football. DON’T LISTEN 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Michael Hanna @MHtweets18]

New Jersey hosting over this gem remains dumb af

[Arash Markazi @ArashMarkazi]

The most beautiful stadium in the world. It’s a shame it won’t be hosting the final or even a semifinal the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

[Ryan Rosenblatt, Back to Back World Series Champ @RyanRosenblatt]

That is the best half the USMNT has played at the World Cup since the first half against Portugal in 2002

[Brian Sciaretta @BrianSciaretta]

That half was acceptable from the #USMNT

[Yonan @yonann]

Zlatan Ibrahimović calls American fans the softest fans he ever played for because they didn’t care about losing until the playoffs

"Most of my career I played in Italy, France, Spain, England, then I came over to US. I think US had the softest fans"

"when we were losing games, they were like don't worry, we just need to reach the playoffs. and I'm like what do you mean don't worry? in my world I am worried"

"if you think about my contract, I get paid now. I don't get paid when the playoff starts"

[Michael Hanna @MHtweets18]

@MDcoach21 @ColeParke_wsc Sure, I'll take the bait. How?

[Michael Hanna @MHtweets18]

@Maverick23251 @sptfinphd @KasselMedia I do.

[Michael Hanna @MHtweets18]

Out of all the (stupid) playoff systems around, NCAA baseball is *by far* the dumbest.

[Baseball America @BaseballAmerica]

UCLA went 52-8.

One of the greatest regular seasons in decades.

National No. 1 seed.

And it doesn't reach the regional final.

@JacobRudner on a stunning loss in Los Angeles ⤵️

https://t.co/QjmWteVoVG

[Michael Hanna @MHtweets18]

@chrismithunc @JordanFalls When you had the best record from the AL face the best record from the NL in one 7-game series? Very comparable, I agree.

[Michael Hanna @MHtweets18]

@JordanFalls @MLB See my other reply.

[Michael Hanna @MHtweets18]

@JordanFalls I'm aware of college schedule limitations, which is why I believe you need some sort of threshold to distill the number of teams (I would propose conference consolidation and using conference regular season champs) and then a larger sample of competition b/w qualifying teams. 2/2

[Michael Hanna @MHtweets18]

@JordanFalls American sports use them to create dopamine hits and jack up TV revenue. They don't care about whether the team with the best claim to being called champion actually wins the title. 1/2

[Michael Hanna @MHtweets18]

@AllAmPotatoes @realjdbreen I have a half baked proposal in my replies. Would fully flesh it out if I thought the system could be changed. I think fewer teams and more games (round robin format home and away) would produce a truer champion than exists now.

[Michael Hanna @MHtweets18]

@satcheluk Check my replies

[Michael Hanna @MHtweets18]

@AllAmPotatoes @yawearesoback @janderson_22 I don't know that UCLA had the best year. They probably did, but different conferences and schedules and all that. MLB does not need a postseason, but college baseball probably does given the number of teams. Just need something with much more weight on the regular season.

[Michael Hanna @MHtweets18]

@cardsfan0000 Yes. And that is really freaking dumb.

[Michael Hanna @MHtweets18]

@JordanFalls I had no pretensions about them being the best team in college basketball that year. I enjoyed that they got hot, but that’s what it was. Would they have been a champion as the word is meant to be used? No. They would have been a tournament winner.