{"id":429,"date":"2019-02-13T20:49:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T20:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/?p=429"},"modified":"2019-02-13T20:49:41","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T20:49:41","slug":"sarcastic-sentry-volume-2-4-issue-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/?p=429","title":{"rendered":"Sarcastic Sentry Volume 2.4, Issue 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, Charlie Brown, you can\u2019t say \u201cNuts\u201d anymore.\u00a0 Bobby or Suzy will choke.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/2019\/02\/12\/peanuts-cracker-jack-banned-minor-league-park-pro-sports-first\/2846703002\/<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the Great American Past Time, baseball, is now under assault from the Social Justice Warriors (SJW).\u00a0 The Hartford Connecticut Yard Goats, a Class AA team for the Colorado Rockies has announced the permanent banning of peanuts from their concession stands for sale as well as the spectators arriving to watch games.\u00a0 It seems those with a peanut allergy have executed a squeeze play to make the vast majority of people without this human immunization flaw yield to their frailty.<\/p>\n<p>Team president Tim Restall says that peanut eaters can still eat peanuts at home.\u00a0 So that makes it all okay.\u00a0 Little Bobby make go into anaphylactic shock if he even steps on a peanut shell then touches it.<\/p>\n<p>According to the peanut institute (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.peanut-institute.org\/eating-well\/allergy\/quick-facts.asp\">http:\/\/www.peanut-institute.org\/eating-well\/allergy\/quick-facts.asp<\/a> about 4% of all people have a food allergy of some kind.\u00a0 OF SOME KIND.\u00a0 Only about .6 to 1% have an allergy to peanuts.\u00a0 But the rest of us?\u00a0 We have to bend to their will.\u00a0 Some of these parents told Restall that they bring their own cupcakes to birthday parties.\u00a0 They sit by themselves in school cafeterias.\u00a0 But his solution is to make all of the other fans of the game do without the \u201cpeanuts and cracker jack\u201d that is part of what makes baseball \u201cthe game\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Why not create a small peanut free zone in the park?\u00a0 I\u2019m sure the whole park is already gun free.\u00a0 It couldn\u2019t take much to cordon off a section with its own entry and exit, even its own concessionaire to cater to these (based on ratios and percentages) three people.<\/p>\n<p>Do they intend on banning ice cream for the lactose intolerant?\u00a0 How will they prevent honey bees from entering?\u00a0 You\u2019ve probably been somewhere that you\u2019ve seen them buzzing around a spilled sugary drink or a trashcan.\u00a0 That\u2019s the same anaphylactic shock.\u00a0 What about Muslim sensibilities?\u00a0 They have an aversion to pork.\u00a0 What if they smelled one in the grubby infidel hands of the spectator next to them?\u00a0 Ban hotdogs!\u00a0 What about those that observe the Shabbat? Are they going to stop playing games on Friday night?\u00a0 Oh, wait.\u00a0 Those people are Jews.\u00a0 They get no special considerations.<\/p>\n<p>I tell you this.\u00a0 The first time I go to a ball park and can\u2019t buy or eat peanuts, it\u2019ll be my last baseball game ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, Charlie Brown, you can\u2019t say \u201cNuts\u201d anymore.\u00a0 Bobby or Suzy will choke. https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/2019\/02\/12\/peanuts-cracker-jack-banned-minor-league-park-pro-sports-first\/2846703002\/ Yes, the Great American Past Time, baseball, is now under assault from the Social Justice Warriors (SJW).\u00a0 The Hartford Connecticut Yard Goats, a Class AA team for the Colorado Rockies has announced the permanent banning of peanuts from their concession stands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}