After getting ribbed by reporters and photographers for his rotund belly in Fort Myers this week, Sandoval wound up challenging a reporter from Boston.com to work out with him.

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Steve Silva, the reporter in question, apparently accepted the challenge.

Let’s just hope there’s something fun involved, like a fried chicken eating contest or something. It is the Red Sox, after all.