In a Baltimore Sun interview earlier this week, Baker Koppelman, the Ravens’ senior vice president of ticket sales and operations, made the irrefutable statement that there is no good time to raise ticket prices.
Fans don’t like it, period, regardless of the team, sport or city. Even in good times, when wins are piling up, they don’t like digging deeper into their pockets. Who does?
There’s bound to be grumbling when a team announces a hike after its third non-winning season out of four, as the Ravens did earlier this week.
But when they rolled out their hike in conjunction with plans to spend $120 million of their own on significant upgrades to M&T Bank Stadium, the Ravens offered what I thought was a pretty logical rationale.