Suzie and Her Son
September 3, 2002
I enjoyed the Kentucky at Louisville game. During the game ESPN interviewed that Louisville kid who pitched for the little league champions.
There's a tradition where kids who do well at a young age go on to great success in college athletics. You'll remember that little league pitcher, Ian Dury, winning the title then going on to play for the Boston College hockey team and eventually the Colorado Blockheads in the NHL.
I was kind of surprised that ESPN didn't expand on this fact during the Kentucky game. After all, Kentucky quarterback Bluto Lorenzo was pretty famous in his youth, though not for playing Little League baseball.
One of Bluto's neighbors was an ill little child who had some strange blood disorder. Then the child's mother, Suzie, while helping Bluto's mother clean clothes, discovered a miracle potion that helped cure her son's disease.
You see, while wringing out Bluto's jockstrap after his PeeWee football game, Suzie accidentally let some of the drippings fall onto her ill son's dinner plate. After eating the son started to feel better. Suzie kept on doing this, wringing out Bluto's perspiration and other emissions onto her son's food, and eventually her son was cured.
As a result, Bluto became well known years before his UK career, and there was even a movie made about him. Suzie's husband, Tim Robbins, gained 100 pounds and played the title role, with Suzie Sarandon playing herself.
And so the drippings from Bluto Lorenzo's jockstrap because world famous thanks to the film "Lorenzo's Oil".