If you had a Buzz hat to wear to the team's first couple games in Franklin Quest Stadium this week, count yourself lucky.
Demand for Buzz paraphernalia has skyrocketed, and some items are in short supply, according to local sporting goods stores."I've run out of hats. I've got three left and they're all small sizes," Chris Carpenter, manager of Pro Image at Crossroads Plaza, said Monday afternoon, hours before the team's home opener. "Everybody this morning - all they wanted was Buzz, Buzz, Buzz."
Those hats later sold, leaving the store Buzz hatless. A shipment of eight hats arrived around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday. By 5 p.m., half of the hats had sold.
Even tourists to the Beehive State are abuzz, asking questions about the team and buying gear. A group from Minnesota snapped up six Buzz hats to take home.
"They didn't even check sizes," Carpenter said. "They just scooped them up."
Of course, the Minnesota visitors have cause to be interested in the Buzz - it's the farm team for the Minnesota Twins.
The story is the same at other sport stores that carry team merchandise along the Wasatch Front. Store managers say many customers wanted items to wear to the Buzz's first home game against the Edmonton Trappers Monday night. Other customers are buying in anticipation of attending the first game they're able to get tickets to.
Hats are the hottest items.
"Incredible. We can't keep hats in," said Dave Andrews, manager of Pro Image in West Valley City.
Sales of T-shirts and sweat shirts are also brisk.
"I don't have enough of it," said Alicia Oxborrow, manager of Pro Image at the Cottonwood Mall. "Every other person asks for Buzz stuff."
Theresa Smith, athletic apparel buyer for Gart Brothers stores, also reports excellent sales.
"It's selling about as fast as we get it into the stores," Smith said.
Ryan Hansen, manager of the Pro Image store at University Mall in Orem, sold 10 Buzz T-shirts before 3 p.m. Monday.
"People are excited that baseball is here, a quality baseball team. No offense to the (Salt Lake) Trappers, but these are professional baseball players," Hansen said. "That atmosphere has got everybody going - that the players are going to be really good, and that is going to be fun."
The excitement about the Buzz is somewhat surprising, Smith said. Generally in a city with a major league sports team such as the Jazz, there's little leftover adulation for a minor league team.
Salt Lake City is proving to be an exception to that notion.
"It's (the support) outstanding for a minor league team," Smith said.
Oxborrow thinks some customers are hockey fans who are transferring allegiance to the city's new baseball team.
"Everyone likes having baseball here again, and they're excited for the stadium," Oxborrow said.
Speaking of the stadium, baseball fans can get exclusive Buzz wear there at The Backstop. The store is selling opening day T-shirts through Wednesday, according to Buzz General Manager Tammy Felker-White.
Sales, as might be guessed, are "very successful."