The current resurgence of Yacht Rock—that cooler packaging of the soft rock I played into the ground in the 90s—is more than just a trend. It’s a return to a standard of engineering.

Before I accepted the wager, I wanted to be fair. The Canes were the absolute wagon and number one seed in the East, fresh off a brutal sweep of Ottawa and firing on all cylinders.

I’ve heard these songs on car radios and through cheap on location remote monitors for forty years. But hearing them like this? It hits like a ton of bricks. What have I been missing!

While we were out there handing over keys to Harleys, the "Machine" was moving in the background. In 1996, the Telecom rules changed, and radio was never the same.