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Here are all the coolest MLB handshakes you can steal to celebrate National High Five Day

Enjoy National High Five Day with fun MLB handshakes

It's April 16 and you know what that means -- it's National High Five Day. It's time to celebrate:

morse

OK, not by yourself, Michael Morse. This is a day about --

encarnacion

No, no, Edwin Encarnacion, you don't get it. Guys, you need to high five other people. Let Koji Uehara give you an example:

koji

That's how you do it.

National High Five Day was started in 2002 by students at the University of Virginia and due to the immense satisfaction a high five brings, it's been going strong ever since. But anyone can give a high five (just remember to look at the other person's elbow). That's why we've compiled some of the coolest high-five based MLB handshakes so you can stand out on this the high-five-iest of all days.

Try to amp up your normal high five, like Yunel Escobar:

Or simply use it as a base, like young Nick Swisher here:

If you want to go for style points, get Danny DeVito involved:

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Then maybe one day, you'll be ready to graduate to a Geovany Soto handshake masterpiece:

Or, you know, you could just go totally off the rails and redefine "high five" completely:

pencepanda

waino

You do you, guys. You do you.