Getty Image
Philadelphia Phillies fans are doing everything they can to keep Nick Castellanos’ son Liam around the team for the rest of the MLB Playoffs.
Including going as far as to offer to home school the 10-year-old.
The hilarious suggestion comes after Castellanos’ two-home run night, with Liam in attendance, to finish off the Atlanta Braves in Game 4 of the National League Division Series.
The elder Castellanos finished the series and 7-of-15 with four home runs and five RBIs.
Castellanos spoke with Matt Gelb of The Athletic recently about his bond with Liam, who lives with his mother in Miami, and what it’s like having him around.
“As he starts his journey on becoming a man — school and jiu-jitsu and baseball, I’m only hearing about it through a phone across the country,” Castellanos told Gelb when discussing the decision to sign with the Phillies prior to the 2022 season. “That’s very heavy for me. It’s a heavy weight for me to bear because of how up-my-ass my dad was with me every single day. Every day, every morning, every night. That constant hammering made me — in quotations — ‘great.’ You know? That’s what my father was for me. As he’s getting older, the more and more I feel that I fall short of what my dad was for me.”
Liam has had quite the 2023 season.
He spent his summer with Nick. He attended the MLB All-Star game and took batting practice from Roger Clemens. And he became a regular in the Phillies’ clubhouse.
He even snuck into the Phillies’ NLDS celebrations at a bar near the ballpark.
Omg pic.twitter.com/tOIdiUuFsE
— Cindy Webster (@CindyWeb94) October 13, 2023
Now, with Nick swinging a hot bat in the playoffs and Liam back around, Phillies fans want to keep him there.
That includes countless offers to home school him throughout the playoff run.
But according to Castellanos’ wife Jess, that’s not a problem.
“PSA: LIAM IS ALREADY HOME SCHOOLED BY HIS NANA. Thank you all for the offers of teaching him, traveling with him back and forth from Florida, and the option of you guys doing his homework for him. But we’re good he’s here and we’re doing SWELL, happy red October,” she tweeted.
Oh thank goodness.
Can’t have anything messing up the vibes at such a crucial time.
Fear not, Phillies fans.