Gametime forecast: Partly cloudy. Winds blowing from left to right field at 1-10 m.p.h. Temperature: Around 50. Twins: SP, Nolasco Dozier 2B Mauer 1B Willingham LF Colabello DH Plouffe 3B Kubel RF Suzuki C Hicks CF Florimon SS Indians: SP, Masterson Morgan CF Swisher 1B Kipnis 2B Santana 3B Brantley LF Chisenhall DH Gomes C Murphy RF Aviles SS --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Things to Think About: 1. One Thousand Wins -- Ron Gardenhire reached 4 digits in wins yesterday... This is quite the accomplishment. Not many Managers are around long enough to reach this number. It speaks to his ability and it speaks to his longevity. To stay around long enough... You gotta make a lot of right decisions. Right decisions on the field and right decisions on the phone... Email and face to face meetings with players and the Owners and GM. To reach a thousand Wins... It isn't just on the field... You gotta be good off the field as well. 2. One Thousand Losses -- Gardenhire's career record stands at 1000-950... That means it's very probable that Gardy will reach 1,000 losses in 2014. That milestone should also be celebrated. One thousand losses with the same club is probably a harder accomplishment compared to 1 thousand wins. 3. One Thousand At Bats -- They say that it takes about 1,000 at bats before you know what you have in a player. I don't know who said it first but a lot of important people echo it. Arcia 397 Hicks 334 Colabello 200... What do we have? Indeed. 4. One Thousand Dollars a Day -- Is $365,000 a Year... Major League Minimum is $500,000. February to September is 7 months of work a year... Average Family Doctor makes $158,000. So take all those numbers and add them all together and Gardenhire reached 10 Thousand Wins and each ball player should try real hard. 5. One Thousand Words -- They say a picture is worth a thousand words. How do photographers feed their family with that kind of value?