or for teams that don't have a real shot of say hosting an all star game or otherwise needing to be in the MLB's good graces to tell them to freak off. For a team that doesn't own it's own TV rights to do anything to make selig happy is a joke
To be fair, this team has pissed of Selig many many times with draft signings. McGeary for instance, Robbie Ray, and so on.