The only sure thing about scalping the Series today is that the scalper is paying the bookie a greater profit because he is making a greater number of bets.

Money coming in plenty / Twenties, fifties and Bennies

halcyon days of yore

The three times The definition of a pastness [of an object] is: that state of destructedness [which exists] in the next period after the time of an object — the object being a [functioning] thing that is other [than its own pastness].