nothing rhymes with purple

no, nothing rhymes with purple, but jose hernandez is pretty happy that i found a 2014 topps heritage blaster that came with a purple refractor parallel in each pack.

i know a few of you have also found one of these, but this is the first time i have been so fortunate.  this was the second (and final) blaster i purchased of heritage this year, and as bad as the first one was, i think i deserved all of this purple.

one pack included two of the parallels - this david ortiz card

and the fat panda, pablo sandoval

will the dodgers trade in one large third baseman for another when this season is done?  stay tuned.

more purple - nelson cruz

cliff lee

patrick corbin

carlos beltran

edwin encarnacion

and jose bautista

the blaster also yielded a joey bats jersey card

don't worry - there were some normal cards in the blaster, too.  like this lance berkman final tribute

yes, these are berkman's complete career stats on the back.

i was a fan of berkman's in the early 2000's - who wouldn't have been - but i was secretly glad that he saved some of his poorest regular season play for his short stint with the yankees.

i was a juan marichal magnet, although both cards i pulled feature him as a giant, and not as a dodger.  here's a baseball flashback

and a then and now insert, featuring max scherzer

more giants - a high numbered hunter pence

and another high number, derek jeter

there was a third high number in the blaster - wil myers

who was also the subject of the blaster's target red parallel

as for dodgers, there were only three - aj ellis

dan haren

and matt kemp

so i had to grab this sandy koufax/clayton kershaw then and now insert from another source

speaking of other sources, the non-dodger cards in this post are available - preferably for some dodger blue purple, if you know what i mean.