My namesake may not start the All-Star game. It seems that's more of a bummer to me than Dan Haren.

Except that, I could (having a similar hair style) have entered any number of clubs in Hono by claiming to be the "All-Star Game starter for the American League."  Given the intellectual talent bouncing the door, it might have worked even on game night.  Given the mixed-race, Polynesian-Filipino-Japanese-Caucasian-Thai-Vietnamese-Chinese eye-candy that exists on Oahu simply to torture ex-pat barn-raising Midwesterners, this would have been a good thing.

I am not from the Midwest, and the only barn I ever saw raised was in the tornado scene in Wizard of Oz.  In fact, I'm not even from the Mainland and I can't recall the last time I saw a barn in the Hawai'ian islands.  

Anyway, you can't overestimate the IQ of Hawai'ian bouncers nor can you rely on their ability to figure out time zones.  So there could have been possibilities here.

So Haren blew it for me.  But not really -- because it's GREAT that he's going.  Congratulations and well-done, Namesake!

/Yes, he's my namesake for first AND last name.

/not spelled like Dan Haren, the pitcher

/am Dan Haren-something, and I ought to be an A's employee for just that reason