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Weekend winners
Dansby Swanson. Yes, there were a slew of star-studded performances as the Cubs took two of three from the Braves. Ronald Acuña went 8-for-14 in the series and now has 53 stolen bases on the year. Matt Olson is generating more runs than a 3 a.m. trip to the Waffle House. (Seriously, Olson scored three and knocked in six in three games in Chicago.) But Swanson won the weekend because a), his team took the series, b) he knocked in a pair in each of the Cubs’ wins and c) in reference to facing his former team for the first-time — and with a direct zinger to Freddie Freeman, who shed more tears than the audience at an “Old Yeller” marathon last year at Truist — told reporters, “Mallory already said if I cry like a (female dog) I’m sleeping on the coach for a week.”
Bryson DeChambeau. Wow, an emotional weekend for some of the most unlikable names in sports, huh? Bryson shot a 58 at the LIV Greenbriar, which is somewhere between Augusta National and Sir Goonies on the golfing spectrum. Here’s more, including a hardly believable quote that this is the biggest accomplish of his career, even over winning the U.S. Open. C’mon Bryson. That said, when or if you ever wonder how much better those guys are than you or me, get any three of your regular golfing buddies and you four could play a scramble at the Greenbriar in tournament conditions and not come close to a 58. And he did it on his own ball.
Taylor Swift. By almost every measure, Swift — one of the elite mega-stars in pop culture of the moment, and unlike a lot of them, one with actual talent — tipped 10 times the amount to the staff at the close of her most recent tour. Like $100K to the truck drivers kind of generous.