Supreme Court Justice Rips New York Mets in a Court Decision

The New York Mets are always going to be a team to poke fun at. The same happened for Supreme Court justice, Elena Kagan, during a court decision. She did it on a drug manufacturer who attempted to file counterclaims.

Here's what she said:

Truth be told, the answer to the general question “What does ‘not an’ mean?” is “It depends”: The meaning of the phrase turns on its context. See Johnson v. United States, 559 U. S. ___, ___ (2010) (slip op., at 5) (“Ultimately, context determines meaning”). “Not an” sometimes means “not any,” in the way Novo claims. If your spouse tells you he is late because he “did not take a cab,” you will infer that he took no cab at all (but took the bus instead). And if a sports-fan friend bemoans that “the New York Mets do not have a chance of winning the World Series,” you will gather that the team has no chance whatsoever (because they have no hitting).

Ouch, but then again, she is a Mets fan. A sad Mets fan, though.

H/T Off the Bench