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It’s the final weekend of the 2007 Major League Baseball season, and for the hottest sports chat, BlogTalkRadio has got you covered.

Last year when he was named General Manager of the Texas Rangers, Jon Daniels became the youngest GM in major league baseball history at 28 years old.

Now Daniels joins host Joe Hamrahi of Baseball Digest Daily on BlogTalkRadio to review his team’s 2007 season. Daniels will be joined by Matt Cerrone of MetsBlog.com (and host of the MetsBlog Podcast on BTR), as well as Geoff Young of Ducksnorts.com to update us on the Padres surge for the playoffs. Don’t miss this discussion, folks.

Baseball Digest Daily broadcasts LIVE at Noon ET, or download the archive at your leisure.

We welcome USA Today readers who’ve been pointed to BlogTalkRadio to hear Ed Morrissey’s exclusive interview with former House speaker Newt Gingrich that aired yesterday.

This interview comes at an interesting time, as USA Today puts it, there is speculation and “chances that [Newt] might get into the Republican race himself” for the Presidency in 2008.

The On Politics section of USA Today aims to be “the news, the people, the road to Election Day,” points readers to media coverage that will influence and inform our decisions in the 2008 election.

In the interview, Gingrich also discusses his Solutions Day initiative, which takes place tomorrow.

Listen to the archived interview on BTR’s Heading Right Radio here.

Our very own John C. Havens will be broadcasting LIVE from the Podcast and New Media Expo this weekend in Ontario, CA. Today and tomorrow John will give us reviews of the expo and broadcast his own Saturday presentation.

Tonight at 8:30pm ET, Havens will produce his show - in style - from Jason Van Orden’s Poolside Party. Tonight’s show will feature interviews with Paolo Tosolini of Microsoft and podcasting consultant Jason Van Orden. Havens will also report on latest news and tips from the Podcast and New Media Expo.

And on Saturday, September 29, Havens will be joined by Paolo Tosolini of Microsoft at 2:30 p.m. ET, where they will broadcast their presentation “The Business Value of Podcasting and New Media for Corporate Organizations” LIVE from the Expo. Tosolini and Havens will provide real world examples of how podcasting is providing ROI, specifically with Microsoft’s Enterprise Academy Mobile Podcasting initiative.

Using specific case studies from Microsoft’s recently launched Academy Mobile podcasting platform and other existing initiatives, Tosolini and Havens will get pragmatic about how corporate podcasting may evolve from just perceived positive business value into real profit.

Microsoft recently created the “Enterprise Podcasting” show on the BlogTalkRadio network. Microsoft will be using the platform to further discuss the present and the future of corporate podcasting. The Expo presentation will stream live at 2:30 p.m. ET, Saturday from the Enterprise Podcasting channel on BlogTalkRadio.

Remember Ren and Stimpy? Zookers Radio does, and they have animator Jessica Borutski on LIVE tonight.

Zookers Radio Program welcomes Jessica Borutski on tonight, September 28th, 7:00pm ET.

Borutski began her animation career working on Ren and Stimpy in Ottawa, for Spike TV, animating with pencil and paper. Computers, although invented by then, were not used. Which, to me, is crazy and I can’t wait to hear the story behind that.

Her career has taken her through animation studios such as Collideascope and Copernicus and given her new skills. With these new skills she created her first short film, “I Like Pandas” that was completed in 2005, and won best Flash Film for Frederator. Visit her site to see the video. It was also nominated in festivals such as Nick Toons and Platform (Cartoon Network).

In 2006, Borutski directed a series of music videos with Copernicus studios for Nickelodeon, soon to be released on Nick TV. She’s currently working at Fuel Industries as Lead concept artist and animator. Fuel Industries is one of the largest Adver-gaming companies in North America.

Her side projects include a new short film for next year?s Ottawa International Animation festival. You can check out Borutski’s blog for some great sketches.

If animation or adver-gaming is your thing, don’t miss this show. Borutski’s experience and background ensures this will be chock full of content.

Ed Morrissey will host Newt Gingrich today to discuss Solutions Day, the former Speaker’s newest political project. Tune in at 3pm ET today to hear about American Solutions for Winning the Future and Solutions Day.

As the website explains:

American Solutions for Winning the Future is a new, non-partisan organization built around three goals: to defend America and our allies abroad and defeat our enemies, to strengthen and revitalize America’s core values, and to move the government into the 21st Century.

On September 27 and 29 citizens have the opportunity to start the change in their government. They can choose to do it at the school board level, the city council level, the county commission level, the state legislature level, the congressional level, or the presidential level.

If you have an idea that you want to promote that is going to make life better for yourselves, your neighbors and your fellow Americans, this is your opportunity to get involved. It’s not often that one of these opportunities comes along — this is the first of what we hope will be many. It’s time for citizens to take back their government!

Join Ed and Newt at 3pm ET on Heading Right Radio.