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What are the odds that some where in Chicago, a priest is dedicated at least a decade of his Rosary to his favorite baseball team?

A relatively new join FR member seems to antagonize more than submit for discussion. I prayed some Hail Mary's.

Time proves God. If God weren't who He IS, then the Jews would have been obliterated by history.

If a celibate clergy meant dooming that religion, then why has the Roman Catholic Rite flourished?

Not everyone is meant to be everything life can make available. Not everyone can birth a child. Not everyone can be a US Marine. Thus, not everyone is meant to be a celibate priest. The anger for the celibate Roman Catholic priesthood is because of the Power of the Holy Eucharist, the courage rewarded with Grace for the vows taken by the priests, and the Victory on the Cross revisited every time the Mass is celebrated.

Today, men's reasonable thought calculates the actions Faith has brought. What keeps the enraged from embracing Universal Truth is their hardened hearts. The anxious shrilling fear emoted by anti-Catholic "Christians" in name is a demon (or demons) that sense time is nearing to an end. We know this to be so because the White Sox are doing so well this year. If that's not a sign of the end times, I don't know what is!

The apostles were married.
Numerous Early Church popes and bishops were married.
Eastern Catholic churches are filled with married priests.

Anyone claiming that married priests are less suited for the priesthood, or in some way poor quality or non-priests is denying the history of the Catholic church, and the practices of the church as a whole.

What is it specifically that makes an unmarried man so worrthy in the Latin rite, but a married man just as fit in the Easten rite within the same church body (The Roman Catholic Church)?

This is not an argument of scripture, religion, or doctrine, but one of history and tradition.