“Will someone please step in and compare this to the civil rights movement. Please mention Nazis and the holocaust, then it will inspire fear and hatred towards those that don’t want a minute minority’s will forced upon them”

I don’t think anyone (else) wants to look that stupid.

These arguments between the haters and the applauders are amazing to me.
Bottom line, this is a good will gesture aimed at good press for the Cards.

To the haters…. This isn’t some kind of goverment form of oppression. It’s a private organization making a decision on how they run their business. Case closed. If they wanted to, they could have a section reserved for people with bunyons. Why the heck would anyone else even care? That’s their right to do as they see fit. Rest assured that if they don’t get more butts in the seats, it will probably be phased out with another idea.

To the applauders…. do you really think one tiny section being peanut free is going to make a difference? How many peanut eating patrons will you have to walk by to get to this section? What happens if you end up sitting on the end of the row exactly 2 feet from the next section over, which is not peanut free? When the wind blows your way, the peanut dust will still be in your section. If myself or my child had a peanut allergy, I wouldn’t dare go anywhere where 45,000 people were cracking open peanuts when all you’re really guaranteed is a seat at least 2 feet from peanuts.

I never had any idea that there were so many selfish clueless idiots in the St. Louis area. No one is asking anyone to pay extra for tickets to accommodate the peanut free section. The hostility being demonstrated is truly mindboggling. I am not allergic myself nor do I have allergic kids, but as someone who frequents the games fairly often, I really don’t see how this is going to be stepping on my rights or making it more difficult on me personally. I do think that this may give the allergy sufferers a false sense of security though, as I can not see how you are going to make something absolutely peanut free without enclosing the space completely. I can see how well that suggestion would go over! It is clear that many of the responders are part of the “it’s all about me generation”, who have not yet figured out that the world does not in fact revolve around them. Not allowing peanuts in one section is not going to hurt anyone!!! Reducing the likelihood of someone dying from an everyday ordinary activity should be something we can do without crying! Get over it and grow the heck up!

Okay well here’s what I think: I think the word “hater” is thrown around way too conveniently these days in order for people to get their way. Allergic to peanuts? Eating them might cause you to die? Oh, okay. Well then don’t eat peanuts. But it goes deeper than that. Someone like this wants me to pay pennance for it and throw them a pity party. It doesn’t have anything to do with me. Hey, you’ve been injured, you’re in a wheelchair, you’ve got a life threatening disease and no cure, sure I’ve got a lot of sympathy for you and I’ll open the door, can’t reach something in the supermarket, no problem I’ll get it for you but C’mon! Something that can be avoided and you want me to feel guilty for it? No way! Don’t eat peanuts and you won’t die! Now get off my back about it! K?

P.S. What if my peanut dust drifts in to “their” area? Am I now liable? Will I be charged with a hate crime? Will I be charged with involuntary manslaughter? or premeditated murder?

“At the ballpark, they came first for the smokers, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a smoker;
And then they came for the drinkers, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a drinker;
And then they came for the peanut eaters, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a peanut eater;
And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up.”

I’m 45 and don’t ever remember anyone with peanut allergies when I was growing up. Odd.

I hate the smell of strong perfume/cologne and I know there are people out there allergic to these. I vote for a perfume/cologne-free section. We’ll call it the “Stinky Section”.

I see nothing wrong with it, as long as they don’t make the entire stadium go this way.

And I must confess at first it irratated me. Because I thought since the beginning of baseball, they have sold peanuts. Nobody has ever died(that I know of) at a baseball game because they sold peanuts. And suddenly in 2008, it is a life and death sitution when it never has before.

But that doesn’t matter. Because there is always a first. And it is, only a section.

By the way, someone mentioned about a alchohol free zone, and in LA, there is one at Dodger Stadium. Or atleast there was in the 80’s.

I have anaphylaxis to peanuts (that means it’s fatal) and am thrilled by the news of a peanut free section. I have had this allergy since I was two years of age and I can not tell you how much it means to me to see the public start to understand this allergy. I will be first in line to buy tickets to the Cardinals game for the peanut free section and I hope this becomes a permanent solution so that people like me, people who fear having a life-threatening reaction, can attend the games and actually enjoy them!

Thank you!!

How about a “Brain Free” section as that describes most Americans and especially ones that support a corporate fanchise with their tax dollars. I’ve never seen a “Tax Supported Appreciation” day at the ballpark. How about one of those?