After George Mitchell, Bud Selig and Donald Fehr were done being questioned by a House panel yesterday, they got up, gave each other bear hugs and made plans with several Congressmen to get together at Fehr's beach house in the Hamptons this summer.

OK, maybe we won't be seeing Selig in swim trunks after all (whoops, sorry for planting that mental image) but it's worth pointing out that yesterday's hearing was so UNconfrontational that I think most people were just bored with it. Granted, there's no way House members were going to lay into Mitchell, the former Senate Majority Leader and peacebroker who can do no wrong.

Selig and Fehr, meanwhile, managed to diffuse a lot of criticism by accepting their share of responsibility for the steroids scandal. No, they didn't break down in tears and beg for forgiveness, but they said enough of the right things to avoid getting grilled.

I'm still struggling to grasp the point of the hearing, but lawmakers dropped a few pieces of interesting news. I was most intrigued to hear of the dramatic rise in the number of medical exemptions granted for use of banned stimulants like Ritalin or Adderall, which are used to treat hyperactivity and attention deficit disorder. According to figures provided by Rep. John Tierney, Massachusetts Democrat, the number outpaces the rate of these conditions in the general population by a ratio of 8 to 1. That many players with ADD? Sure ...

Lawmakers yesterday also asked the Department of Justice to look into whether former Orioles shortstop Miguel Tejada lied during an interview with investigators about teammate Rafael Palmeiro's steroid use in 2005. Palmeiro, if you recall, was under investigation for perjury relating to his earlier testimony that he had never taken steroids. (Palmeiro later tested positive.) Tejada insisted he knew nothing about steroids, but the Mitchell Report claims he bought human growth hormone in 2003.

So, stay with me: Lawmakers want to know whether Tejada lied when he spoke to investigators who were looking into whether Palmeiro had lied.

Anyway, did anyone else read who Tejada's lawyer was during his testimony? None other than Mark Tuohey, the former chairman of the D.C. Sports and Entertainment Commission. So while Tuohey was burning the midnight oil to nail down a lease for the Nationals new ballpark, he was also representing Miguel Tejada in testimony before Congress. Tejada had better hope that he ends up with a better fate than another former Tuohey client, former Republican congressman Bob Ney, who is serving a 30 month jail sentence stemming from his role in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal.

-- Tim Lemke