Cubs’ Mark De Rosa is a HUGE Michael Johns fan

February 22, 2008

Come on Cub fans! You can’t disappoint Mark.

From MLB.com.

Mark DeRosa is a big “American Idol” fan these days because Michael Johns, a singer he heard several years ago in a small Atlanta area bar is one of the contestants. And DeRosa is hoping Cubs fans will vote for the Australian.

“I met him about seven years ago in Atlanta,” DeRosa said. “He was singing in a bar in Buckhead, Ga., and me and my wife went to hang out with a couple friends. He started singing, and I turned to my wife and I said, ‘He’s one of the best singers I’ve ever heard.’”

The DeRosas became groupies, sort of, and kept going back to the bar to listen to Johns for his weekly sessions. They built up a friendship.

“He moved to [Los Angeles] a couple years back and tried to make it and never did,” DeRosa said Thursday. “My wife and I were always on him about doing “American Idol”. We went to L.A. last year to play the Dodgers, and he told us he decided to do it. If you watch the show he’s, by far, head and shoulders above the rest.”

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