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Downtown_Skill t1_ja2qrd4 wrote

Reply to comment by allangee in There is no feeling more bittersweet for an athlete than to be cut by a team that immediately goes on to win a championship by Looney_forner

Exactly that's why it's bittersweet. It's in the same vein as being eliminated from a tournament by losing to the future champion.

Edit: Haha just genuinely confused as to why I'm being downvoted. When you lose to a team that turns out to be the best it's slightly less hurtful because it at least feels slightly valid. If you lose to a team that gets blown out in their next game the loss might hurt a little more.

Like would you feel worse about being cut from a bad team or worse if you were cut from a team that turned out to be very good and didn't need you after all.

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Rapture1119 t1_ja3fild wrote

Nah, see, the example you gave us gives ya the feeling of “well hey, if I lost, at least I know it was to the best of the best. Maybe I was second best. That’s still pretty good.”

The example here gives the feeling of “damn, I’m why they didn’t get the championship sooner.”

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Downtown_Skill t1_ja3g8gd wrote

Ahhhhh I see, makes more sense to me now. Not exactly bittersweet then. I assumed cut meant you were never on the team to begin with not removed from the team so now I understand haha.

Edit: I was thinking cut the way you're cut from the team if you didn't make it after tryouts.

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Rapture1119 t1_ja3gm0w wrote

Yeah, to get cut means you got booted from a team you were already on. I see your confusion though, because if the wording was “you didn’t make the cut” rather than “you were cut” then yeah, that’d probably mean you didn’t get picked in try outs.

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Downtown_Skill t1_ja3h5d6 wrote

We used it interchangeably when I was growing up. If you didn't make the team you were cut, but yeah this obviously isn't referring to amateur kids sports so I should've at least made that connection haha.

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Reefer-eyed_Beans t1_ja4mw4m wrote

Neither one of those is "bittersweet" tbh. The second one seems to have a silver lining because you could rationalize that you were potentially second best (though bracket-style elimination doesn't really determine who's best in the first place; the whole thing's very flawed).

"Bittersweet" involves an actual upside that wouldn't be realized otherwise. I.e. The loser being able to go home to his sister's wedding. "Whelp, maybe we're 2nd?" is not bittersweet it's just an optimistic take.

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muy_carona t1_ja52ekj wrote

The “no feeling more…” That gets this totally wrong.

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