Red Sox brass is apparently adhering to Bud Selig’s request not to engage in verbal Ping-Pong with the Yankees, no matter how hard it is for them.

Asked if he’d seen The Post’s photo illustration of owner John Henry made up to look like Ray Bolger’s “Wizard of Oz” scarecrow, Sox CEO Larry Lucchino laughed and said he did.

Asked whether that would make him the Tin Man or the Cowardly Lion, Lucchino said, “The commissioner has asked us not to comment on film scripts and movie projects and other things, as you know.”