Around this time of year, Sounder at Heart has grown accustomed to hearing rumblings and grumblings about season-ticket prices. Just like every year, we heard quite a few complaints about how much their prices had gone up. But this year’s complaints seemed a bit different. While there have always been examples of double-digit percentage increases, this year we were hearing from people who saw even bigger bumps. One long-time season-ticket holder even told us their tickets were up 34 percent over the previous season.
Given the anecdotes, we wanted to get some data. We reached out to the Sounders, who got us in touch with majority owner Adrian Hanauer.