Okay, I get it. No free peanuts.

I think it’s a great idea for the kids who are peanut-alergic. I wish they had a section where they could bring in all the sick kids from Cardinal-Glennon for a game. It’s one thing to have a sick adult, but a sick kid just tugs at the heart a bit more, don’t you think?

I say give them all the allergy-free sections that they need, as long as the demand is there. Attendance is down this year, so I don’t think this is going to affect the average fan, and if it does, oh well. Consider it to be like the Great American Smoke Out, where people give up smoking for a day.

It’s about time people start to suck it up a bit for those less fortunate, and in doing so count their blessings.

Well, it’s their business and their decision. Hooray for those that feel they will benefit from this. I hope a peanut morsel doesn’t drift down from section 209 onto the head of someone in the peanut-free section 109.

It’s crazy that so many people are upset about parents trying to protect their children! We didn’t ask for the Cardinals to devote a section for every game. We didn’t ask them to not sell peanuts or make the stadium peanut free. We asked for and were graciously granted one section for one game. This is a tremendous opportunity for our kids to experience something that most people take for granted. Can you please just relax and let us enjoy a single baseball game in peace!

Everyone seems to have lost sight of the fact that this is a group outing for the Gateway FEAST organization, their friends and family, and others who may have peanut allergies and would not otherwise attend a game. These sections have been set aside for us to go see a baseball game. We are paying for our tickets just like any other group. We just happen to not want peanuts in the sections we’re sitting in and have paid for. This is a reasonable accomodation that the Cardinals and Rascals have been very willing to work with us on. As a matter of fact, they have gone above and beyond our expectations of their own free will - just to be nice and because they hope that our kids have a good time and want to come back. It’s not any different than the school for the blind going to a game and the Cardinals accomodating them with extra ushers to help the children get to their seats. Just because there happens to be a group of blind people sitting in a section as a group doesn’t mean that everyone in the ballpark has to shut their eyes so they can’t see it either. We’re not banning peanuts in the ballpark or taking anyone’s freedoms away. We’re having a group outing. We can’t have peanuts in our section. If that bothers you, then you most likely aren’t part of the food allergy community in St. Louis and you won’t be sitting there anyway. I guess the next time my daughter’s Catholic school goes to a game as a group you will all be having a fit because now you’ll all have to become Catholic, right? Geez!

Illinoismom, that was hilarious… but better yet, just dangle the epi pen in front of the moron as they slowly suffocate.

It’s amazing how many truly ignorant people we have in our little society. Wait, that gives me an idea: How about idiot-free sections at the ballpark? Oh no, that won’t work… judging from some of the responses on here the stadium would be mostly empty. Darn.

It’s truly shocking to see how selfish and cruel people can really be. Just reading all of these paranoid posts from people who think that if someone makes the slightest accommodation for one group, the sky will fall and we will all wake up embracing communism. It’s times like this I can only hope there is such a thing as Karma, because for all of the nasty and cruel posters here — you’ve got it coming to you.

I am so astounded at the selfish comments I am reading & literally had to just stop reading on account of losing brain cells by all the ignorance.

And again, I echo the many comments I’ve read when I say IMAGINE IF IT WAS YOUR CHILD. Would you want him or her to never experience a baseball game for fear he or she could die by sitting in front of / beside a person who was eating a food that could throw him/her into anaphylaxis?

This is not a case of some families overreacting or wanting special treatment. This is a medical situation where a family, who lives every single day of their lives having to be careful, be aware, miss out on birthday parties, amusement parks, possibly public school, eat/drink special things, never experience Ted Drewes, JUST WANTS TO GO TO *ONE* ball game without the fear that they’ll have to jam a humungous needle into their child’s leg in hopes that the epinephrine will open back up their airway.

I pray that no allergic child ever has to depend on you all to save him… rather than calling 9-1-1, you might tell him to “quit being a pansy, you’re fine” as his body goes into shock & his blood pressure plummets.

It’s apparent that there are still self-involved, insensitive people in our area, who can’t see beyond themselves to learn a little & God forbid, put themselves in someone else’s shoes.

Harper’s magazine had a great article about nut alergies in it’s Jan 08 issue, I suggest all read it-it’s 2 pages.

http://www.harpers.org/media/slideshow/annot/2008-01/index.html

They are NOT my kids so I neither have to accomodate them or “imagine” “What if it were my kid(s)”. The duty to accomodate for these kids rests with the parents NOT society! I already have to pay taxes to educate the worthless scum in public indoctrination centers around the area so they can grow up to be worthless eaters and dead end consumers, I’m not paying extra at a ballgame to lessen the likelihood that they’ll be around peanuts when eating peanuts is a part of the outdoor baseball experience. We get hammered with costs every day because “special interests” want everyone to shell out to accomodate their “special needs”.

“I pray that no allergic child ever has to depend on you all to save him… rather than calling 9-1-1, you might tell him to “quit being a pansy, you’re fine” as his body goes into shock & his blood pressure plummets.”

Darwin Rules! You’re gonna die because I know I can’t count on you either!