Looks like Coco Crisp needs to learn how to bunt.
Never, never, never, never drop the head of the bat like that(and you want to have the bat on a plane only slighty above center of the ball to keep it from popping up) or you look like a fool when the pitcher or catcher catches your easy pop up. Get those top hand fingers of the barrel, or you'll get 'em broke Coco! The art of bunting is a lost one, it died when Whitey Herzog quit managing the Cardinals and the Bash Brothers came up in Oakland. Bastiches.

Isn't that post contact?

If it is then it's even worse. It shows that what I'm talking about is actually happening. That isn't a ball headed to the ground near the plate and rolling up the 3rd/1st base line. That's headed toward the pitcher, proll'y with enough velocity to allow an easy pick up-set-throw, and in the air(maybe a fly out).
He dropped the bat head, causing the ball to go UP in the air instead of staying level with the incoming pitch or down into the ground. You drop the bat right on the plate to make life difficult for the catcher(so he steps on it, maybe twisting or breaking an ankle, but mostly to make him slow to fielding the ball--if I had a nickel for every time somone did that to me in little league, or just a free swing at the guy on the way back to the dugout...). There's no need for the motion Coco is making to drop the bat post contact. YOu draw the bat in and drop it(on the plate!) in one motion.
Coco needs to learn how to bunt. Maybe the BoSox minor league coach that taught David Eckstein will give him help with it?

Speak to Coco through me, ry. He's listening.

Well, then maybe you can pass on that he should go into a major slump in the ALCS this year if the BoSox are playing a certain California team, but should be slapping stuff into the gap and legging out triples if it's anyone else they play. ;)

he plays for the red sox. he aint never gonna bunt. i'm surprised they even practice it.

Coco is 2-2 in the first grapefruit league game with a double from a single. Wooo! We've goin' to Disneyland! We've goin' to Disneyland!

Portland,
Remember, they've started a sorta-maybe- could bedecent 'roids screening process. Expect players to be smaller and pitchers to throw slower(and fewer people with severe acne in MLB). Walks will go up and dingers down. More Greg Maddox. Less Roger Clemens.
Teams that cannot play small ball won't survive the modern playoff set-up(nobody stays that hot, as a team).

Al, but can he be the new Idiot King?

I think the Yankees can have that idiocy now. Besides:<blockquote class="smalltext">It was an impressive debut for the Red Sox new leadoff man, Coco Crisp, who went 3-for-3 with one RBI, finishing just a homer shy of the cycle.</blockquote>Who needs idiots?

From the <i>Boston Herald</i>:<blockquote class="smalltext">Against Twins ace left-hander Johan Santana in the first inning, Crisp batted right-handed and singled to left.<br>Against Twins right-hander Carlos Silva in the third inning, Crisp batted left-handed and doubled to right-center.<br>Against Twins left-handed reliever Gabe White in the fifth inning, Crisp batted right-handed and tripled to right-center.<br>That’s a single, double and triple that looked as effortless as a walk on the beach.<br>Right, left, right.<br>"I don’t know the feeling," Francona cracked when asked about Crisp’s ability to produce from both sides of the plate, particularly against pitchers like Santana and Silva. "It must be a great feeling."<br>Even in a dress rehearsal.</blockquote>

<p>We've goin' to Disneyland! We've goin' to Disneyland!<blockquote><i>RED SOX 10, ORIOLES 6<br>at Fort Myers, Fla.<br>Tuesday, March 7<p>

Red Sox at the plate: Manny Ramirez showed no rust in his first game of the spring, raking a single to right in his first at-bat and a two-run single to center his next time up. Ramirez added a sacrifice fly, finishing with a 2-for-2 afternoon that included a run and three RBIs. <b>Leadoff man Coco Crisp was 3-for-3 with a stolen base.</b></i></blockquote>