The Cycle: Rounding The Bases - Trade Deadline Reactions and Analysis (Ep. 1107)

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🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Join Ryan Wormeli (@RyanWarmly) and Mike Maher (@mikeMaher) for Part One of this week’s edition of The Cycle!

In this episode, Worm and Maher run through some recent injuries before breaking down all of the major moves that took place at the wild trade deadline!

Timestamps: (May be off due to ads)

Intro - 0:00:00

Injuries Galore - 0:02:36

Ronald Acuna Jr. - 0:02:45

Jackson Chourio - 0:02:52

Yandy Diaz - 0:03:14

Chandler Simpson - 0:03:23

Ronald Acuna Jr. (continued) - 0:03:58

Jackson Chourio (continued) - 0:05:43

Trade Deadline Reaction - 0:07:48

Ryan O’Hearn and Ramon Laureano - 0:08:08

Cedric Mullins - 0:10:55

Carlos Correa - 0:13:15

Adrian Houser and Griffin Jax - 0:15:53

Dustin May - 0:19:07

Eugenio Suarez - 0:22:14

Camilo Doval and David Bednar - 0:24:35

Merrill Kelly - 0:27:12

Mike Yastrzemski - 0:27:33

Jose Caballero - 0:28:05

Harrison Bader - 0:28:46

Jhoan Duran - 0:29:27

Shane Bieber and Ty France - 0:30:49

Willi Castro - 0:31:54

Mason Miller - 0:33:30

Leo DeVries - 0:35:42

Outro - 0:37:07

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:04.4	The Stuff You Should Know guys have made their own summer playlist of their must listen podcasts on movies.
0:10.2	It's me, Josh, and I'd like to welcome you to the Stuff You Should Know summer movie playlist.
0:15.1	What Screams Summer?
0:16.1	More than a nice, darkened, air-conditioned theater, and a great movie playing right in front of you.
0:20.8	Episodes on James Bond, special effects, stunt men and women, disaster films. darkened air-conditioned theater and a great movie playing right in front of you.
0:27.5	Episodes on James Bond, special effects, stunt men and women, disaster films, even movies that change filmmaking, and many more.
0:34.3	Listen to the stuff you should know summer movie playlist on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:40.6	Hello, everybody.
0:41.8	Welcome into this cycle.
0:47.3	I am Ryan warmly joined for the last time in season in 2025 by Mike Mayer.
0:49.7	Of course, the way I frame that, it sounds like you're stepping away.
0:53.4	I will be the one who is not doing the show anymore for the next couple of months.
0:56.5	This is my annual responsibilities on the football side.
0:57.6	I just get to be too much.
1:01.8	And the company decides to have me step away from the cycle.
1:06.7	It is not something I fight, but it's not necessarily my choice either.
1:08.2	Don't come strictly yell at me.
1:44.5	But it does kind of make sense all around with everything we have going on in August for draft season. So just right off the bat admitting it that, you know, mayor isn't pushing me away. This isn't because we hate each other. This is because I have to go to a lot of football work over the next couple of months. But you are in good hands. The cycle is continuing. Mayor will be here and hosting, which I know everybody loves. Kelly Kirby will be joining him for most of those shows, I would imagine. If she's not available here and there, maybe some other guests. But it'll largely be Mayor and Kelly going forward. So Mayor, go ahead and celebrate that I'm stepping away. I know you're really excited about it. Yeah, I wish I had the ability to, like, add, like, drops like just like hit a button and bring in that like, boo this man meme. Like, boo this man.
1:49.2	Boo. They're saying boo earns. Boer earns. Oh, Simpsons reference from you. I know. I need
1:55.3	that was just for you for our last show of the year. Wow, what a treat.
2:05.9	But yeah, it'll be the same share that you guys have heard before when I'm out with Mayor and Kelly and, you know, nothing will change other than just in the voices on here.
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