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Mets manager Terry Collins is onboard for a one-game Subway Series opposed to the current three-game format.

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When the Astros move to the American League West next season and interleague becomes an everyday occurrence, there is talk that the annual Yankees-Mets Subway Series could be reduced to just a single three-game series.

And that would seem to be fine by the Yankees and Mets.

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“I always thought there should only be the one because I think there should be a winner every year for sure,” Joe Girardi said. “I would actually be in favor of that.”

Would Terry Collins welcome fewer Yankee dates on his calendar?

“Yes, absolutely,” Collins said. “Next year you don’t know who is going to be in their lineup. But I know one thing, they’ll be good. Anytime you play them you know you’re going to face a top lineup.”

And add the Yankees captain to the list of those growing weary of the two Subway Series. “I’ve always been kind of old school anyway,” Derek Jeter said. “I liked it when we didn’t even face the National League. When I first came up that’s how it was, you played in the World Series or hopefully you played in the World Series and you haven’t seen the (other) team.”

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Mets pitchers Dillon Gee, Bobby Parnell and Tim Byrdak rode from Citi Field to Yankee Stadium in the back of two police cars Friday. “Played with the shotgun in the back seat,” Gee joked. “We were getting on the late bus, and there were only three of us on there, so they were like, just ride in the cop cars. We thought it’d be cool ... It was actually a pretty nice ride.”

Gee, who joked that it was his first and “hopefully” last time in the back seat of a police vehicle, will start Saturday against Phil Hughes. Gee pitched against the Yankees in Flushing last season, but will make his Stadium debut Saturday. “I heard a lot of homers get hit here, and they hit a lot of homers,” Gee said. “I’ll try to keep the ball down.”

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Mets shortstop Omar Quintanilla, who went 1-for-2 and scored the lone Mets’ run on a Lucas Duda double in the ninth Friday, said X-rays revealed a small fracture in his left index finger, but insisted it’s “definitely not” something that would prevent him from remaining in the lineup. ... The Mets optioned pitcher Pedro Beato  to Triple-A Buffalo, with Chris Young activated off the paternity list.