Just goes to show you what a classy guy LTG truly is. That said...
JJP - For the love of pinball, hire LTG back!
Practically all this great guy does is help people across this site with YOUR games. Traverse any JJP game thread and you'll find LTG on almost every page helping people out, out of his kindness. As a good will ambassador alone, he's 2nd to none. He makes YOU look good.
As a gesture of good faith, you should take care of him, since he's (by default) helping you out. You not taking care of him makes you look bad.
He always puts himself out there to help others who've bought JJP pins. No matter the game, the issue, the problem or the question asked, there's LTG helping people out and making your life easier. Seriously, would it kill you to hire him back? Don't you think you owe it to the guy to do so? I love you guys, but my word, do the right thing JJP, and hire back LTG.