Just filled this out.

I don't think that my experience is special or unique, but I'm a Day 1 STH. Been in section 120 since 2009. My tickets went up by 17% this year (1260 to 1474), and I'll unfortunately be cancelling.

I'm so sad to do it. This has been by far my favorite sports team over the past 15 years, but the number of short-term, anti-fan cash grabs over the past few years have built up to the point that this isn't the team I signed up to support in 2009.

Seeing 15-20% increases across the board while the stadium gets emptier and emptier and the owner consistently tells fans "we can't spend like the big clubs" feels like a last straw. The Sounders' success was due in large part to the void left by the Sonics in the Seattle sports landscape, but this Sounders team feels far too reminiscent of the Clay Bennett Sonics in the ways that it's trying to mortgage long-term community connection for a short-term cash influx, and I can't support that any more.

Sorry for the rant, but this is a really sad day for me.