Found August 06, 2009 on Washington Post:
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(Photo by Haraz N. Ghanbari - AP) One item about a Nats celebration not enough for you? Let's go for another. Hey, this team has won four straight; they need every celebration in the book. And so the question, inspired by this video from Nats Nation, goes like this: why do Adam Dunn and Josh Willingham insist on the old-school handshake whenever either hits a home run? "I don't know, that just kind of came about I guess," Dunn said. "I really don't know." "It's just something we started doing," Willingham said. "I don't know why we started doing, it just sort of happened and just stuck." And so, like cockroaches and ESPNU, the handshake apparently has no real Raison d'être? Turns out they don't shake hands after wins, or after RBI doubles or diving catches. Only after home runs, hit by either Dunn or Willingham. And if you
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