Out on the water, brightly painted dugout canoes cut through the waves on their way out to fish as they have done for centuries.
Ideally, the bottom of the trench was lined with duckboards to prevent men from sinking into the mud and dugouts were cut into the walls, these gave shelter from the elements and shrapnel, although in the British Army dugouts were usually reserved for the officers and senior NCOs.
THE SPIT COUNT My obsession with rampant in-game spitting amused me during Game 1. Starting with the Red Sox' 34-minute, 7-run fifth inning, I noticed that every time Fox cut to the dugouts, someone was spitting or poised to spit.
So, with the drama building, Fox cut to the Cardinals' dugout, then to a close-up of Beltran, a shot of Matt Holliday waiting on deck, and finally to a nervous blond St . Louisfan holding her Cardinals cap.
When Van Persie scored his second goal to make it 4-1, televisionsion cameras cut to the Spanish dugout as they watched a replay on the big screens.
INSIDE PITCH The Angels Jered Weaverr, who cut two fingers on the dugout bench in Detroit last week, was scratched from his start here on Tuesday.
Sometimes it was fun to watch only the dugouts, and to anticipate when Fox would cut to the managers.
Or, as Dallas Braden reminded everyone two years ago, a base runner jogging back to the dugout after a third out had better not cut across the mound and step on the rubber.
So I took a shot of them coming out of the dugout to establish what was happening and then cut back and stayed with Mariano because he's the story".
With Plymouth Argyle already adrift at the bottom of the fourth tier in September, their manager cuts an isolated figure in the dugout.
