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A five-year old video clip showing a brief tussle between an adult woman and a little girl over possession of a baseball tossed into the stands during a Houston Astros game recirculated online in July 2016, along with the claim that the ball-snatching woman had finally been identified as a child psychologist named Grennele Brashkowitz: This video depicted an incident that occurred at a 2011 game between the Houston Astros and the Arizona Diamondbacks at Minute Maid Park in Houston. Although the clip was featured by numerous news outlets at the time the event took place, no contemporaneous news reports identified the woman seen in the video as Grennele Brashkowitz or a child psychiatrist. Instead, most reports simply referred to her as awful or a jerk of unknown name and occupation: Shortly after the video went viral, the woman became the subject of an Internet witch hunt to identify and publicly shame her. Those efforts yielded no results, but on 9 September 2014 the web site The Damien Zone published an article stating they had identified her: This article was just another another bit of fake news, however. The biggest giveaway is that The Damien Zone linked to the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) page of David D. Mattia in places that should have linked to pictures of Brashkowitz and her alleged associate, Daneesh Pargrim. (Mattia is frequently listed as a contributor to The Damien Zone.) We also found no record of a child psychologist named Grennele Brashkowitz operating in New York, nor of her associate Daneesh Pargrim. Although The Damien Zone does not specifically identify itself as satirical in nature, the site's disclaimer makes it clear that the blog places more weight on humor than on accuracy:
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