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Loves peanuts and baseball, hates children

Considering the kinds of news the Cardinals have been making of late - unreliable bullpen, sputtering offense, and that hole in the ground where Ballpark Village should be - this week’s Post-Dispatch story about the club’s setting aside a stadium section for fans with peanut allergies and their children no doubt came as welcome relief. But for every good deed, there’s always some selfish nutcase (literally) ready to spoil the fun and endanger a youngster’s health. Welcome to St. Louis, Frew family!

Armed with medication just in case, the Frew family from Sedalia, Mo., sat in the peanut-free zone as 2 1/2-year-old Colin tried to focus on his first-ever baseball game.

“We can’t even eat peanuts and touch him. He’d have a reaction,” said Denise Frew. “It doesn’t take much to send a child with allergies into distress.”

The Frews bought tickets for Monday’s game, thinking the entire stadium had been designated peanut-free for the night. When they initially sat in another section, a man was eating peanuts nearby. When they asked him to stop, he refused.

The Frews then realized they needed to move to the special section, where they found sympathetic section-mates.

Really, Cardinals fan? Your right to enjoy an overpriced bag of peanuts trumps a kid’s vulnerability to an ailment that could very well kill him?

A pity that P-D reporter Georgina Gustin didn’t identify the defiant legume lover. A guy like this deserves his full fifteen-minute allotment of fame.

A message to all such self-absorbed gooberists from the most famous Cards fan of all:

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