My ESPN content from the past seven days:

* My 2004 redraft, going back to that year and redoing the draft with the benefit of hindsight.
* And a companion piece looking at the 2004 first-rounders who didn’t work out.
* How the Rangers should respond to Fielder’s injury.
* My SEC tournament wrapup.
* Friday’s Klawchat.

My next mock draft goes up Tuesday, and I’ll have a pro prospect ranking update later in the week as well, because I don’t have enough going on right now.

I left Alabama a little earlier than expected, since the 3 pm game on Friday didn’t include anyone I needed to see, but I did stop by Octane in Homewood for an espresso and a bag of beans (Rwandan, since I enjoyed the Four Barrel beans from that country). The space is bigger and brighter than the Octane I visited in Atlanta, too.

And now, this week’s links, with two extra today since I went a little heavy on the vaccine topic.

• Vaccines are not associated with autism. A meta-study covering over a million kids found, once again, that water is wet and vaccines don’t cause autism. Link goes to an abstract for a subscriber-only journal article.
• Delaying the MMR vaccine may increase seizure risk. Granted, this is small potatoes compared to, you know, getting the actual measles, but it’s just another reason to vaccinate fully and on schedule.
• Antivaccine activists attack and bully high school filmmakers. Just in case you didn’t realize vaccinutters were dangerous, evil zealots.
• And one more on vaccines – why showing someone their belief is false doesn’t work. It’s more complicated than just disproving a dumb idea.
• From the NY Times, a long column on why counting reducing calories won’t help you lose weight. The authors have hypothesized that it’s a combination of factors behind our national weight gain: We eat too many refined carbohydrates that drive up insulin levels, and storage of excess glycogen as fat actually reduces the amount of energy available for the body to use – so we eat more.
• Chef Dan Barber talked to NPR about his new book, The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food, which continues Barber’s long-running interest in food security and sustainability. His main message is still the same, though: Our choices at the market and the table have consequences for everyone.
• Haverford commencement speaker lambasts students. They mounted a protest against the original speaker, former Cal-Berkeley chancellor Robert Birgeneau, causing his withdrawal. Some of this stuff happened when I was in college, although it was more likely students would refuse to stand or would turn their backs to the speaker. The idea of petitioning to cause a speaker’s removal has the whiff of sport, not political activism, and the actual speaker, former Princeton president William Bowen, makes several excellent points on the imbroglio.

The weekly roundup of my ESPN content from the past seven days:

* The top 25 MLB players under age 25. The comments are a cesspool of no-one-ever-reads-the-intro ignorance, too.
* Scouting notes on Lakewood and Charleston prospects, including Aaron Judge and J.P. Crawford.
* Draft blog post on Virginia prep RHP Jake Bukauskus, who is graduating a year early and will likely go in the first round.
* This week’s Klawchat.

The original purpose of the Saturday five post was to include a list of five somethings that had caught my eye or ear recently, like songs, but eventually I just stripped it down to five links per week so that I could post more regularly with a little less pressure on myself. I’m bringing that old format back this week to talk about one of my newest obsessions – coffee. Here are five small roasters, some pretty well-known, whose coffees I’ve enjoyed both at home (with one exception) and on the road.

* Four Barrel. A San Francisco-based roaster focused on single-origins from around the world, and whose coffees I first tried at Phoenix’s wonderful Giant Coffee bar on First Street, not far from Matt’s Big Breakfast (owned by the same guy). A reader who works at Four Barrel was kind enough to send me some of their offerings from this spring, and the Rwandan Musabiymana beans made the best espresso shot I’ve ever pulled at home, with blackberry and blood orange notes and just the right amount of acidity for my particular tastes. I also recommend their Friendo Blendo blend.

* Intelligentsia. One of the biggest of the small guys, Intelligentsia has made huge inroads into the restaurant side of the business as well as opening a handful of high-end artisan shops where the coffee is just part of a larger experience. Their roasts are very light, at least relative to what I think American coffee drinkers expect (Starbucks, Peet’s), and like Four Barrel they specialize in single-origins, engaging in direct trade with farmers around the world. Their Ljulu Lipati beans from Zambia are the only ones from that country I’ve ever tried, and they have a little less acidity and citrus notes than other East African beans I’ve had, with cherry and honey notes making a more balanced cup. Their Black Cat espresso makes a well-rounded shot with great body and the sweetness you’d expect from a blend of South American beans. Intelligentsia has multiple coffee bars in LA and Chicago, plus a new one in the High Line Hotel in New York City.

* heart coffee. A friend of mine at Intelligentsia first introduced me to heart as well, and I’ve since found their beans at Crepe Bar in Tempe and at Culture Espresso in Manhattan. They’re smaller than the preceding two roasters so their options are fewer, but they seem to always have choices from Central/South America as well as Africa, along with a seasonal blend. I particularly liked the Colombian La Pradera beans, which had enough vanilla notes to give it a sweet veneer over richer fruit notes – their website suggests cantaloupe, which I didn’t pick up at all, as well as “nougat,” which I can’t even imagine what that means in a coffee.

* Counter Culture. This is the one on the list I haven’t tried at home yet, but I’ve had them all over the south, including at Joule in Raleigh last month. Hugh Acheson also swears by these guys, and that’s a pretty good recommendation as he’s become a dedicated coffeehound recently. (He’s a good follow on Twitter/Instagram for his coffee meanderings, along with snark and the occasional baseball and hockey commentary.) My favorite so far is La Golondrina, sourced direct from the farm in Colombia, with cocoa, caramel, and bourbon (the drink, not the coffee cultivar) notes.

* Downtown Coffee. This Honolulu micro-roaster and cafe offers a rare opportunity to buy American, if you’re so inclined – Hawai’i is the only U.S. state with the proper climate for coffee cultivation, and Downtown Coffee roasts beans from four of the islands in the chain, both as single-origins and in blends. We visited the shop on our family vacation to Hawai’i in 2012, and loved their coffee and the homemade Japanese pastries they sell, including a fantastic matcha torte that I’ve never had anywhere else. I just ordered beans from them a few weeks ago and have been tearing through their Spring Blend, a medium roast offering with beans from Maui and Waialua (Oahu); its espresso shots have great body and more of the cocoa notes I love in espresso. If you visit the shop, ask for Fred or Fumiko to give you a “tour” of all of the local beans they offer – they’re very knowledgeable, since everything is roasted on-site, and walked me through the differences between beans from each island.

And now, for the Saturday links…

• A new Tennessee law favors Jack Daniels over craft distillers. Color me shocked that big business got a law passed to stick it to smaller competitors.
• NPR looks at – no joke – artisanal toast. This link brought to you by the Toast Marketing Board.
• BP would like you to not read this link about how the Deepwater Horizon disaster decimated the bluefin tuna population, and they certainly don’t want to pay for it.
• I admit I’m not quite sure how I feel about net neutrality, but I do get a queasy feeling reading that the FCC wants to destroy it. And that’s under what should ostensibly be a more pro-consumer, less pro-business Adminstration.
• A fun read as professional bartenders give tips for the home mixologist, although the current lime shortage may make some of those suggestions difficult.