GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- Just about the time Alex Rodriguez was beginning his news conference at the Yankees' camp in Tampa, Fla., on Tuesday, Tribe player rep Ryan Garko was passing out a memo in the clubhouse at the Indians' Player Development Complex.

The memo, handed down from the MLB Players Association, had a pretty simple premise. It essentially urged players to watch what they say to the media, with regard to the leaking of 2003 drug testing results that were supposed to remain confidential.

But A-Rod, who answered questions from a horde of reporters regarding his admitted steroid use, isn't the only player upset that the results of his failed test went public. Cliff Lee, the Indians' reigning Cy Young Award winner, had plenty to say about the issue.

"We had an agreement [with the union] that it's an anonymous test, and obviously it's not anonymous," Lee said. "There's still 103 other guys that could be leaked out. Part of me wishes they would just say all of them, and part of me wishes they would destroy it. It was supposed to be anonymous, and that's the way it should be. That's what our union stuff is for."

Rodriguez's results leaked when Sports Illustrated reporter Selena Roberts, working on a book about A-Rod, found four anonymous sources who confirmed that he had failed the test. Because the sources are anonymous, it is not known where, exactly, the leak occurred.

Lee didn't pin blame on the union for what transpired. But he did say that anybody who failed a drug test in 2003 deserves what's coming to them.

"They knew we were going to have an anonymous test," he said, "and they still did steroids. That's being a little selfish there."

Lee and a handful of other players watched every minute of A-Rod's press conference in the dining area at the complex. Lee also had watched Rodriguez's interview with ESPN's Peter Gammons last week, and he believes A-Rod has done all he can to address the issue head-on.

"What else do you want a guy to do, you know?" Lee said. "He's come out and told everyone what he did. That's all you can ask. I think it's in the past and over with. MLB's got a great policy in place, and this is old news from 2003."

Yet the A-Rod news has become the news of a month ordinarily reserved for the joy and optimism that comes with teams reporting to spring camp. And it's news even a guy like Grady Sizemore, who had no real interest in watching the press conference, couldn't escape.

"It's hard to miss," Sizemore said.

Count Sizemore among those who wish the story would go away.

"There seems to be some kind of issue every year," he said, "but it doesn't seem to affect the game at all. These are the juicy stories people want to talk about, so let them talk about it. But from a player's standpoint, you want what happened in the past to stay in the past. We have a good program in place, so let's go from there."

Of course, it's not that easy. Should the other 103 names on the 2003 list leak out, this saga will only continue.

Sizemore, for one, thinks that's a shame.

"Nobody wants an anonymous test revealed to the public," he said. "It's tough. Nobody wants to see a guy get outed and ridiculed for something he did years ago in the past."