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Rapture1119 t1_ja3fild wrote

Reply to comment by Downtown_Skill 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

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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