If the mariners would also hire Mark Shaporo and Chris Antonetti, then Mariners fans will find their ticket prices DROP instead of get raised, because fewer and fewer fans – particularly season ticket holders – will buy tickets.

The M’s pioneered scalping their own tickets, which opened the floodgates to Boston-style scalping in the streets and higher aftermarket ticket prices after the City had to repeal an anti-scalping ordinance to please the Mariners.

They also began imposing “premium” pricing for some games (i.e., Yankees and Red Sox), and now use “dynamic pricing” despite being half-full almost all the time.

This all really started after 2001, when management felt fans would just show up regardless of how they were treated (I remember human chains of ushers screaming at fans to exit immediately after games — no joke).

I finally wrote a long but polite letter, cc’ed to both Howard Lincoln and Chuck Armstrong, regarding their disregard for their paying customers. I received no answer whatsoever, not even from a lackey.

So I cancelled my season tickets. Now I spend my summers watching the Sounders, whose owners actually meet with their season ticket holders — all who want to show up — and actually care what they have to say.