Race for the Lid 2025

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Each spring, bright-shining Apollo graces one OWA poster with the gift of prophecy. Each fall, the board bestows upon said poster a totem of that power: The Lid.

And it’s about that time again. As lid-bearer, I’ll take over scorekeeping duties this year. Thanks very much to Ty for running the show last year and for sending me this fantastically celebratory black and gold snapback.

It’s a new-look Astros team for 2025. A new 1B, a new 3B, a new position for a future HOFer, a new top prospect, new City Connect unis, and a new ballpark name to top it all off. But as we embrace the new, we hope some old traditions endure—specifically, that the eight-year tradition of making the postseason will continue at least to a ninth.

Last year 88 wins was enough. How many will it take this time? Well, that’s why we’re here—to guess how many it’ll take, or how many they’ll tally in the trying. This, friends, is the Race for the Lid.

These are the rules. Read them. Heed them.

  1. I, moriarty, am the official scorekeeper.
  2. Pick the total number of Astros wins, starting Opening Day 2025, through the end of the regular season.
  3. All picks are to be made in this thread. Picks made elsewhere will be disregarded.
  4. One number per poster. One poster per number.
  5. First prize is a cap of my choosing (with the winner’s input) from the Astros store. Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you’re fired.
  6. Just kidding. There’s no second or third prize.
  7. NO PICKS WILL BE ACCEPTED UNTIL THE OFFICIAL COMMENCEMENT TIME of 10 a.m. Central on TUESDAY, MARCH 25.
  8. No picks will be accepted after the Astros’ first pitch on Opening Day. Late picks will be disregarded (unless, for whatever reason, I choose to regard them).
  9. If there is no correct pick, I will put the entrants’ names in my glorious 2024 lid and draw a winner at random.
  10. I, scorekeeper, will make no pick.

Here’s the list of past winners:

2024 - moriarty
2023 - Ty
2022 - Craig
2021 - PCOL2000
2020 - no winner
2019 - spleen
2018 - not recorded
2017 - Duman
2016 - WVastro
2015 - Fredia
2014 - HudsonHawk
2013 - Fynn
2012 - Ebby Calvin
2011 - no winner
2010 - Lurch
2009 - Ron Brand
2008 - EasTexAstro
2007 - no winner
2006 - Fredia
2005 - Drew Corleone
2004 - Andyzipp
2003 - Jim R
2002 - no winner
2001 - Neil T.
2000 - no winner
1999 - Astrobabe

May the highest guess win.

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88 Wins

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Dude, slow down and read the post!

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Happens every year

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Goddammit! Sorry.

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Premature postulation

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This thread always cracks me up.

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We should be taking bets on who is gonna pick early

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Race for the Race for the Lid

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Derivatives, baby!

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I still don’t understand how the Lid affects oil prices.

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I promise to lower lid prices on Day 1

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I remember when a lid cost $10.

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Commercial.

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How many fingers?

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And you would tie an onion to your lid, as was the fashion at the time.

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Reminder: RFTL starts tomorrow morning at 10 central, regardless of whether I remember to post about it at the time.

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Greetings from Morocco! So, I’ll be on the plane (with no internet) at 10am Central when the RFTL kicks off. Because of that, I am hereby submitting my vote fo 93 wins as I board the plane. Before all y’all start whining like a bunch of 90’s Braves pitchers, @moriarity gets to make/ignore/change the rules so it’s his call whether this is a legit pick or not. So, quit ‘yer bitchin’. See y’all on the flip side!

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If I had a nickel for every time someone claimed special dispensation for being a plane to Morocco…

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AMENDED VERDICT: das may guess 93, but the number is still available for someone else to guess, and if the Astros win 93, the other poster will get a ball cap and das will get a fez.

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