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Here’s Mark Teixeira doing some TV interviews outside the clubhouse today.

Joe Girardi’s press conference today was much like yesterday — mostly A-Rod. So we’ll toss a change-up and upload the audio from Mark Teixeira’s interview session today.

He arrived in camp today and we interviewed him at his locker. He talked about being a Yankee, A-Rod, his memories of Texas and what he expects this season. He also made some forceful comments about much he is against PED use.

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I’ll write more about Tex later on once I get through my newspaper stories.

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Here’s the video chat we just did from Tampa. There were 460 viewers on at one point including people from Scotland, India and Aruba. Thanks to everybody for participating.

UPDATE, 4:03 p.m.: Yes, the questions are screened in the office. But not for content, more so just so I can read them as they come in. Otherwise it would be a mess.

If you have some question, feel free to e-mail me and I’ll do a mailbag on the blog when I get a chance.

Direct from the press box at Steinbrenner Field, tune in for a live video chat at 3 p.m.

Click over to our Mogulus Channel at with your questions and I’ll be there for at least 30 minutes to answer any you have.

This will be our fourth remote chat in the last four months and they have worked out well, so please join in.

As you might imagine, much of the talk today was about A-Rod’s impending arrival. Those With Rings, CC Sabathia, A,.J. Burnett and Mark Teixeira will be attending the press conference along with Joe Girardi, Brian Cashman and many of the coaches.

As to the baseball …

· Francisco Cervelli has upper respiratory infection and was excused from camp. … Jason Johnson (personal reasons) got the day off as well.

· At the request of Brian Cashman, CC Sabathia shaved off his beard. That’s one crisis solved.

· Mark Teixeira said his parents would kill him if he took steroids. “In my mind, it’s a drug and my family has zero tolerance for that,” he said. Teixeira was a rookie with Texas in 2003 and said he had no idea about the apparent drug culture there.

· Cashman said his preference at this point is to start the season with Xavier Nady and Nick Swisher on the roster.

· Joba Chamberlain is already boys with Sabathia and Nick Swisher. Then again Joba is pretty much boys with everybody.

Nick Swisher and Mark Teixeira just checked in.

Here’s Austin Romine watching Jesus Montero hit.

Montero is crushing balls to the gap in right.

Tyler Kepner and I just rescued a little turtle and returned it to the pond next to the bullpen.

See? The media isn’t all bad.

There’s a platform built above the bullpen where Brian Cashman and his scouts watch the pitchers. That’s Cash in the orange shirt.

All the photogs want a good shot of CC Sabathia.