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• a journey by ox wagon (especially an organized migration by a group of settlers)
• any long and difficult trip
• journey on foot, especially in the mountains; "We spent the summer trekking in the foothills of the Himalayas"
• make a long and difficult journey; "They trekked towards the North Pole with sleds and skis"

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Los angeles dodgers | long, twisting road led michael petersen to his dodgers debut, the 6-foot-7 right-hander lost three seasons to covid and tommy john surgery but finally made it to the big leagues at age 30 last week.

So he went and terrorized some unsuspecting guys in an adult rec league in San Jose.

“A buddy of mine knew a guy who had an adult team and he was, ‘Hey, if you want to get innings, my buddy will hook you up.’ I said, ‘Yeah, sure,’” Petersen recalled now. “The first team I faced I just said I’ll get a couple innings in at the back end. I don’t need to start or anything.

“There wasn’t even a foul ball. It was just – three up, three down, three up, three down. One of the ladies on their side came up to me and said, ‘Hey, you should look into getting drafted.’ I was like, ‘I’ll keep my eye on that.’ She said, ‘How hard were you throwing – like, 88?’ ‘Yeah, something like that.’”

Petersen – who made his MLB debut for the Dodgers last week – was actually pumping high-90s fastballs at an assortment of delivery drivers, salesmen and other weekend warriors. At that point, the 6-foot-7 right-hander had already played five seasons as a pro – after being drafted three different times, once out of high school and twice out of college, the final time out of Riverside City College by the Milwaukee Brewers.

“It’s funny. You go up there and you see all the coolers of beer and everyone’s having fun. Then all of a sudden I come jogging out, throwing,” Petersen recalled, laughing at the memory. “I was trying to work on stuff, so first inning I’d be throwing fastballs then the second inning I’d throw all curveballs. I wouldn’t pay attention to where I was in the lineup or anything. I was just pitching to what I wanted to do.

“So one of the guys in the lineup, I threw a curveball and he bails out. Hits the deck – strike one. I throw another curveball. He bails out, hits the deck – strike two. He turns and yells out at me, ‘What are you doing? Just throw a fastball, man.’ I didn’t realize he was the No. 9 hitter. He was the worst guy. So I throw a fastball. He doesn’t even get his foot lifted before it goes by him. He goes, ‘Alright, never mind’ and walks away.”

Petersen said the experience reminded him that baseball could be played just for fun. That it didn’t have to be a business.

Then baseball stopped being fun for him.

Pitching for the Colorado Rockies in spring training in 2021, he threw a pitch and felt something he had only heard about before.

“I felt all the stuff you hear about – I felt a pop (in his elbow), I felt the heat. But it didn’t hurt,” Petersen said. “So I throw another pitch and they came out because I was making a face. I was more pissed because I walked a guy. They were, ‘Are you alright?’ ‘Yeah, I’m fine. Just annoyed.’ ‘Well, we saw you grabbing your arm.’ ‘Yeah, I felt a little pop and some heat.’ ‘We’re going to go get you an MRI.’”

Petersen had torn the ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow. COVID had taken one season away from him. Tommy John surgery would take two. From 2020 through 2022, Petersen only threw one inning in an official game – for the Rockies’ team in the Arizona Complex League at the end of the 2022 season.

“I was a free agent at the end of each of those years,” he said. “The first time it didn’t click that baseball might not be in my future. They spent so much money they’re going to re-sign me for nothing. The second time around it was, ‘Man, this might be it.’

“Coming back from injury, a lot of teams don’t give you any runway. It’s, ‘We’re glad you’re healthy. Now go home.’”

Petersen kind of did. The son of a Nigerian mother and an American father, Petersen was born in England. He moved to California as an infant and grew up there. But he was eligible to pitch for Great Britain in the 2023 World Baseball Classic.

Great Britain didn’t last long in the tournament but Petersen made an impression. He pitched one inning against Team USA, hit 100 mph with his fastball – and blew three fastballs past Nolan Arenado for a strikeout.

“It felt good. It was such a long road,” Petersen said. “The funny part is I had no clue I was throwing that hard. After the inning one of my buddies came over and said, ‘Pumping 100s or what?’ I said, ‘I hope.’ ‘No, you were. I think you threw one pitch under 100.’ Oh, this is interesting.”

After making it to Triple-A for the first time in 2023, Petersen became a minor-league free agent again after the season – and the Dodgers were interested.

“During the offseason when we started to look at some minor-league free agents that we felt had some good ingredients and some upside, we had done some homework on him and knew it was a big arm, had been in some tough pitching environments,” Dodgers GM Brandon Gomes said. “At that point, we thought there were some levers to pull here with the slider, his delivery consistency. He came in and worked his butt off then has done nothing but dominate at Triple-A.”

Petersen had a 1.61 ERA with 10 hits allowed and 31 strikeouts in 22⅓ innings for Triple-A Oklahoma City when he finally got the call to the major leagues. He made his debut last week, ironically, in Colorado where some of his old minor-league teammates were now playing.

“Warming up to go in, I was calm,” Petersen said. “First pitch, Barnesy is back there warming me up because Smith was still getting ready. I push a fastball. It hits the glove and tips off. It was – instantly I realized what was going on. It was like a splash of cold water. I started looking around, ‘Oh my goodness, this is a big-league stadium. Oh my goodness, this is a game.’”

He wound up going two innings and getting the win in a game the Dodgers won with seven runs in the ninth inning . Saturday night against the Angels, he pitched a 1-2-3 inning in relief . At 30 years old, with his third organization after nine years in the minor leagues – Petersen is finally a major-leaguer.

“Knowing that he’s been through what he’s gone through and has been in the minor leagues as long as he has, there’s some real grittiness there,” Gomes said.

Petersen is grateful for where his long road has led. But he can’t help lament the delayed arrival in the big leagues.

“What sucks is if I hadn’t gotten hurt at the exact time I got hurt, the path kind of made sense,” he said. “I was 25, 26, 27. I was starting to figure it out, starting to work my way then all of a sudden I lost two years plus COVID.

“I’m not whining about it. There are kids that lost a lot more important times in their lives. But, man, did it suck.”

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“This is by far the biggest crowd I’ve had in a few years,” said Celine Dion onstage at Lincoln Center last week. She was making a rare appearance to introduce “I Am: Celine Dion ,” a documentary chronicling her struggles with stiff-person syndrome , a rare neurological disorder that causes muscle rigidity and has made it difficult for her to do the thing that has most defined her since childhood: sing.

“I cannot believe how fortunate I am to have my fans in my life,” Dion said, pausing to hold back tears as her son, René-Charles Angélil, who was waiting on the side of the stage, handed her a tissue. “Thank you to all of you from the bottom of my heart for being a part of my journey. This movie is my love letter to each of you. I hope to see you all again very soon.”

Director Irene Taylor was not exactly a Dion aficionado when she got a call a few years ago asking if she’d be open to making a film about the French Canadian singer who is known for her powerhouse vocals.

“Honestly, I thought it was not going to be a good fit. I don’t say that out of arrogance. I was like, “What would they want from me? This is not the kind of movie I make,” said Taylor in a video chat. Her previous documentaries include the deeply personal “ Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements ,” about her deaf son and father. She was eventually won over by Dion and tried to approach her subject “with no peripheral vision,” Taylor said. “I really just tried to look at the person in front of me and what was happening.”

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The documentary, now streaming on Prime Video , uses clips of performances and interviews from Dion’s 40-year career and traces the basics of her biography — beginning with her childhood in Quebec, where she was the youngest of 14 children, and then her crossover journey from French-language teen star to a chart topper with power ballads like “Because You Loved Me” and “ My Heart Will Go On .”

Weaving archival material with contemporary footage of Dion opening up about her health struggles, “I Am: Celine Dion” shows the singer at her most vulnerable, both emotionally and physically.

Gone are the glitz and glamour associated with her onstage persona; Dion appears mostly makeup-free in casual dress, making goofy videos with her adolescent twins. She comes off as endearingly kooky — at one point she breaks out into the Kit Kat “Gimme a break” jingle — but also self-aware and very funny, like when she delivers an impromptu monologue about her love of shoes.

She is also candid about the extent of her health issues, revealing in the film that she had, by then, been experiencing symptoms for 17 years. What first manifested through occasional vocal strain grew steadily more debilitating, forcing her to find ways to fake it on stage and cancel shows — something that she, a performer with a zealous work ethic and devotion to her fans, found nearly as painful as the physical condition itself.

Perhaps most unforgettably, the film captures Dion as she is stricken with an episode of her illness in the middle of a physical therapy session. While lying on a table, she suddenly freezes. And though she can barely make a sound, her wrenched face conveys the agony she’s experiencing. At the New York screening, audience members could be heard weeping throughout the scene.

Taylor followed Dion for about a year, spending several days with her a month, and found her brave and authentic — qualities that she hopes come through in the film.

“She was down to earth with me,” she said, “so I just wanted to show the woman who showed me herself.”

Taylor spoke with The Times the day after the screening in New York. The following conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.

Did you know about her diagnosis when you signed up to make this film?

I did not know about her illness when I signed on to do this. She had been withholding it from the world, including me. It all made sense once I talked with her. I realized it was a pretty devastating lie that she was telling people for years. Her athleticism on stage did not suggest that she was sick. Yes, she was canceling some shows, but she found ways to fake it.

In the beginning, I didn’t know what the film would be about. I didn’t really know what my take would be. I just knew it would be a portrait of her. She had asked me, “Is it possible to make a documentary where no one else is in the documentary, it’s just me?” That would sound very self-centered coming from a certain kind of person, but it was a genuine question. I told her, “It’s certainly possible, but it’s going to be a harder road for you because I need more of your time, and I need your authentic self.”

But Celine was so straight with me. She never told me to stop filming. In fact, she said, “Don’t talk to me about whether you can do something or not, because it’ll throw me off. You’re here in my home, you’ve got carte blanche, do what you need to do.” That is a profound tool to give me. She did not get involved in my editing. She did not ask me to change anything. It is a rare opportunity to be able to make a film about a public figure and have that much agency.

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At what point did you learn about the illness?

I got a call saying, “Could we talk about this?” It was a call with someone from the record company and a couple of people from her management team and they basically said, “She’s not well, and we don’t have a name for it.” There wasn’t consensus about it. I had that information going into the first day of shooting, and then it was like a fire hose at me. “Seventeen years, I’ve been lying to everybody. I am feeling so guilty.” I was so overwhelmed that first day. I think she had been holding it in for a long time. Over the first half of filming, I was watching her flail, not knowing what she had, and the doctors not knowing what to do about it. Then over time, there was consensus, and she was very relieved when she got the diagnosis, even though it’s an orphan disease. She said to me, “I don’t want to have a rare disease. No one knows how to fix it.”

When she got that formal diagnosis, that is when she wanted to tell the world, and the way she wanted to do that was through Instagram — just tell people directly. So I pivoted in my filmmaking and decided how to incorporate her telling the world into the story.

With celebrities and public figures, it can be hard to get them off of their narrative. How did you find her as an interview subject?

I had reservations about making the film, because I saw “Celine Dion” in quotes, as a very cultivated public figure. She had a persona, and I was a little cynical about that. I didn’t want to make a film about someone who had an agenda. It took getting to talk with her, and then just connecting with each other on a personal level about certain personal things. We both love trees. We both raise boys. She was very interested in picking apart everything that was in [the background on] our Zoom calls: “What’s that?” You could tell she was just trying to piece me together.

I had made very intimate films about people I know very well, like my parents and my son. I just didn’t know where she’d fit in. In the end, I realized that the fact that Celine was so used to cameras, the fact that she had lived her life under lights, actually made her a very authentic subject. I realized that, instead of [her celebrity] being something to be wary of, it actually was working in my favor, but only because she had decided, “I have nowhere else to go.” She seemed to have it all. In fact, she was living a very private lie, and she called it a lie. I was amazed at the language she was willing to use to describe herself.

We see Dion have this very intense episode, where it’s clear she’s in excruciating pain. Tell me about filming that — what was going through your head?

This all happened all in a matter of a minute. We were in a physical therapy session. We were 10 minutes out of two days of [her] recording [music] for the first time in several years. She left feeling elated, because she didn’t think she’d be able to do it. Ironically, it is that elation, that emotional high, that can trigger this kind of response. We could have turned the camera off, but we had been filming for eight months at that point, and Celine said, “Film everything.” I thought to myself, “I gotta make sure this woman’s breathing,” so I just pushed my headphones into my ear, and I listened, and I could not hear her breathing. I asked, “Is she breathing?” She was able to squeeze [the therapist’s] hand. I looked at my [director of photography], and we just kept going.

I was actually grateful that about forty minutes into the episode, you hear her therapist mention that the cameras are in the room, and he checks with her if it’s OK. I wasn’t sure what she would say in that moment, but she said it was OK. I couldn’t believe what had happened, and I was so grateful she was OK, but I realized that it might be an opportunity, if Celine was up for it, to really show and really validate her suffering.

Six months later, I showed her a rough cut of the film. I was very nervous. I knew there was no way I would ever do this without her consent. She said, “I think this film will help me.” Then she said, “Don’t cut down that scene.”

How did this project change your perception of her? Are you a fan now, or at least an admirer?

A filmmaker should be very wary of getting intoxicated by anything. But I really did allow myself to be inspired by her. We’re almost the same age. I have my health, and I watched someone who was really struggling. She finds so much joy in making music that she is going to come out with something on the other side of this that is going to be very powerful. It may not be the Celine Dion that hit the money notes and basically does three aerobics classes during a concert. It might be a different intensity, it might be a different artistic approach, it might be a different way of performing. But I can tell you she is very focused on being an advocate for people with this disease.

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Meredith Blake is an entertainment reporter for the Los Angeles Times based out of New York City, where she primarily covers television. A native of Bethlehem, Pa., she graduated from Georgetown University and holds a master’s degree from New York University.

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