Jimmy Durante was funny. Larry Schultz wasn’t. That’s why ‘Schnozzola’ is a legend and ’Schnozz’ is a Trendsetter.

After posting posted his best numbers ever as a PEBA pitcher the former Leones pitcher found himself a new home in New Orleans. Ironically, “Ragtime Jimmy” got an early start with the Original New Orleans Jazz Band. It was one of the earliest jazz bands in New York City. Destiny it seems has a sense of humor.

Larry ‘Schnozz’ Schultz was never going to have a career in comedy. Tragedy was clearly his forte after he gave up 4 runs to the Hartford Harpoon in the first three innings of the deciding game of Havana’s first playoff appearance. Carrying the broken hopes of Havana on hi stooped shoulders, he hit the locker room, grabbed a shower and grabbed the first plane to his native Florida.

Comedy requires a sense of timing that he clearly doesn’t have as evidence by his next move. He decided a pay raise was in order. This was not funny. This was not comedic. It was however, the end of the ‘Schnozz’ in Havana. The club quickly did nothing, ensuring he’d get to become the free agent he evidently desired to be.

Now dear readers don’t be too hard on the Leones or on the Schnozz. He had a good year. Really. We liked the guy too. But we’re a small market club with a rather humble budget. Our team bus is a short bus. We’d have loved to keep him around. We were pretty certain he wouldn’t take his payment in cigars. We were fresh out of the Yanqui dollars. Hope he likes gumbo.

“Ladies and Gentlemen, you are under no obligation to laugh. However, if you don’t, we have a brand new audience warming up in the basement.” “Good night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are.”