DelCal Manager Biographies
Ken Funck
Personal
Birthdate:
Where
born:
Height: 6’ 0”
Weight: 215
Eyes: Hazel
Hair: Brown
Family
Wife’s Name: Stephanie
Years Married: 13
Where you met: We worked together at a bank.
Kid’s Name(s) and ages: Max (10), Abby (6)
What are they doing: Steadfastly refusing to learn all the valuable life lessons I try to teach them.
Pets: Maggie (collie/spaniel mutt), Nigel & Buster (cats)
What
types of vacations do you take:
Annual fishing trip to Western Ontario; annual backpacking trip to the
Porcupine Mountains in Michigan’s UP; lots of camping in the summer; load up
the Family Truckster for traditional Midwestern family car trips. We used to travel farther afield (
Career
College and Major: University of Wisconsin-Madison, English
Employer:
State of
Type of
Work: Data Warehouse Project Manager.
Design and manage computer systems that help analyze and distribute
information about
DELCAL
Origin of
our team name: Led Zeppelin was my favorite band growing up;
Number of Years: Entering my fourth
Remarkable
Moment(s): Winning the 2004 championship.
Early memories: I was REALLY nervous going into my first draft
– terrified I was going to do something amazingly stupid.
Things you like about it: Great group of owners; opportunities for NetPlay and FTF gaming (though I wasn’t able to do much of that this year).
Needs improvement: HAL needs to be smarter, but that’s not Delcal’s fault
Typical DelCal playing setting: At the PC in our family room/office
Strat-O and Baseball
Your favorite single strat-O Card: John Lowenstein, 1982
How long have you played Strat-O: On and off since the early 80s
How did
you start: My older brother was in a FTF league with some guys that ran
a bar outside
Do play other Strat-O-Sports: No
What is
your favorite MLB team: Chicago Cubs (life-long, unfortunately). I also have a fondness for any successful
team that closely resembles a collection of slo-pitch softball players: ’82
Brewers, ’83 White Sox, ’93 Phillies, ’99 A’s, ’04 Red
Sox.
Who is your favorite baseball player: Mark Grace
Who is the best player ever: Babe Ruth
What is the best team (single season ever): I suppose the ‘27 Yankees. But as a kid growing up in the 70s, those Big Red Machine teams seemed pretty impressive every time they kicked the crap out of the Cubs, and I loved Earl Weaver’s Orioles teams.
Hobbies:
What other strat-o or fantasy Leagues do you play: WFFL Fantasy Football League, NFL pick pools
What sports do you play: Organized leagues: basketball, volleyball. Just about anything else in a pick-up game, though I can’t skate backwards so I’m useless at hockey. I’ll also humiliate myself at golf once every couple of years.
What other hobbies and interests: Backpacking, fishing, camping, canoeing, movies, music, playing sheepshead and poker.
Favorite Movie: Too many to list just one, gotta go by genre:
Baseball: Eight Men Out
Comedy: Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Romantic Comedy: The Princess Bride, The
Mockumentary: This Is Spinal Tap
Documentary: Atomic Café, The Thin Blue Line
Gangster: Goodfellas
War: Saving Private Ryan, A Bridge Too Far, Bridge on the River Kwai
Courtroom Drama: Anatomy of a Murder
Black Comedy:
Western: Unforgiven, Little Big Man
Horror/Comedy: Return of the Living Dead
Christmas: A Christmas Story
Prison Drama: Shawshank Redemption, Cool Hand Luke
Science Fiction: Star Wars, Twelve Monkeys
Heroin: Trainspotting
Action: Lock, Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels
DVD Compilations: Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes
Favorite Book: The Lord Of The Rings; Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy; pretty much all Kurt Vonnegut (Mother Night, Cat’s Cradle, Slaughterhouse 5)
Most recent book read (non work): “America” (the Daily Show book); “Lord Minimus” (a historical account of a 17th century dwarf in the court of King Charles I, who was banished for killing a man in a duel and spent 20 years as a slave in North Africa); recently re-read “Dune” and “Dune Messiah”.
Anything else: You can see more pictures of the family at www.funck.info.
