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State Farm Padres jack in the box falls off face of the Earth

Does anyone remember the State Farm commercial that played during the playoffs? It showed a bunch of little kids with MLB gear. At the beginning, it showed a cute Padres jack in the box.
You can see the pic here, but the video has disappeared from the Web (more on that later).
http://www.savevid.com/video/state-farm-tiny-fans-commercial.html 

My girlfriend has been trying to track it down for months. She's called the Padres store. They don't have it, and they've said several other shoppers have asked about it. She's called MLB corporate licensing and reports that the woman didn't have any guidance, either, and that the woman she spoke to on the phone sounded nervous. She's called State Farm's marketing department, without any luck.
The YouTube video of the commercial was once all over the Internet, but now State Farm has set the video to private. It's the only video set to private of the 13 State Farm has on YouTube.
I'm not sure what's going on, but it seems like there's a story there somewhere. Maybe State Farm made an unlicensed Padres jack in the box (hard to imagine how one goes about doing that) and is now trying to cover its tracks. Why wouldn't the Padres, MLB, and State Farm all want more publicity and money by making the product available, or at least being honest about it?
Also, this Orioles mobile, featured in the commercial as well, is available at Target but not on MLB.com: 

http://www.target.com/Baseball-Mobile-Baltimore-Orioles/dp/B000BNGZPK/ref=br_1_3?ie=UTF8&frombrowse=1&searchView=grid5&searchNodeID=15810511&searchRank=pmrank&searchPage=2&searchSize=90

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If it makes you feel better

I’ve been looking for almost a year for that old “Cub Busters” song in some sort of digital format…yeah.

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