Before I get into my sports column about baseball umps, and why I wish I was one, I have to mention famed gymnast Simone Biles. The greatest and most dominant gymnast in modern times, as most people have already heard, she bowed out of this summer’s Olympics after developing a bad case of the “twisties,” which can cause a gymnast to crash and burn in the fatal sense – broken neck, etc. “Twisties” are known as a psychological phenomenon that causes a gymnast to lose awareness of where they are in the grand scheme of things while performing twisting moves in ...