"But we're really going, so it's cool," the veteran right-hander said.
Burnett's selection to his first All-Star Game as a 38-year-old in his 17th season was loudly applauded by teammates -- literally, when Hurdle made the announcement. As happy as anyone for "Batman" was his so-called "Robin," although Jeff Locke did have one regret.
"I finally don't have anything over him any more," said Locke, an All-Star in 2013. "That was the only thing I'd ever done that he hadn't."
Burnett, of course, is doing a lot of things he hadn't done before, the most prominent of which could be his refusal to give up home runs.