People live on Matt Stairs Way by the way

Tom Mahon of philly.com notes that free-agent outfielder, Matt Stairs was recently honored by his hometown of Fredericton in the Canadian province of New Brunswick by having a street named after him. Apparently a road that runs alongside Royal Field Park where Stairs first played professionally has been renamed Matt Stairs Way.

The article goes on to describe how much the park means to Stairs and how many of the local residents turned out for the ceremony. It kind of makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Yea Matt!

This got me to wondering as to just what does 259 career home runs get you as far as a road named after you these days.

Do you get a highway?

Main Street?

A road nobody uses with a bunch of potholes?

Well, I used my limited search skills to try and find out and the map above of that area of Fredericton is the best I could come up with.

As you can see River Street does appear to run alongside the ballpark complex though I doubt that they renamed this street "Matt Stairs Way" as it is "River Street" after all and runs along the river. I don't think the people of Fredericton are that "Matt Stairs crazy" to give up their River Street.

No, it has to be one of the smaller streets leading to or within the complex. Google images does not have any photographs that I could find of this complex so no clues to be found there. I could probably refine this map further but really there is only so much time a relatively busy person is going to devote to a Fredericton street map so this is going to have to remain a mystery.

All I have to say is this street better be paved and not some little road connecting a few dirt parking lots or something.

This is Matt Stairs, after all.

Show some respect!