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Minaya is running out of loyal followers

In happier times for the Mets, during spring training of 2007, members of the team's front office wore caps with the letters F.O.O. stitched across the front. The headgear marked them as "Friends of Omar," a playful term tossed around among the executives in Omar Minaya's inner circle.

But those hats are nowhere to be found these days, and that circle is tightening around the embattled general...

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